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INDEX 



Printer to the Royal Society, Statute con- 

 cerning, 127, 163. 



Privileged persons, election of, into the 

 Society, 172. 



Privy Councillors and the Society, 131, 172. 



' Proceedings ' of the Royal Society, 275. 



Publication Grant, 287. 



Publications of the Society, 39, 40, 41, 274 ; 

 Statutes relating to, 141, 155, 161, 168. 



Ray, John, 41. 



Rayleigh, Lord, President, 206; Secretary, 

 208. 



Relics belonging to Royal Society, 237. 



Repository of the Royal Society, 37, 38. 



Ronalds, Francis, benefaction by, 196. 



Rooms successively occupied by the Royal 

 Society, 26. 



Rosse Fund, 182 ; Earl of Rosse, President, 

 204. 



Royal Irish Academy and the Royal 

 Society, 308. 



Royal Medallists, list of, 213. 



Royal Medals, 186. 



Royal Society, account of the origin of, 

 4, 7 ; subjects discussed at its early 

 meetings, 5, 10 ; preliminary list of 

 earliest projectors of, 8 ; modes of election 

 at, 11; earliest proposed organization of, 

 12 ; name of, when determined, 13 ; ob- 

 tains its first charter, 14 ; true date of 

 origin of, as an incorporated society, 14 ; 

 list of original fellows of, 16, 18 ; arms 

 granted to, 22 ; motto of, 22 ; early 

 impecuniosity of, 24, 25, 160, 173 ; peti- 

 tions for a grant of lands in Ireland, 25 ; 

 solicits a grant of lands reclaimed from 

 the sea, 25 ; petitions to obtain Chelsea 

 College, 25 ; College granted, 27 ; repur- 

 chased by Charles II, 27 ; days and hours 

 of meetings of, 25 ; successive abodes of, 

 26, 27, 29 ; proposes to erect a building, 

 28 ; arrangement of business at the 

 meetings of, 29 ; experiments at meetings 

 of, 31 ; comprehensiveness of scientific 

 aims of, 33 ; practical inquiries of, into 

 industrial matters, 34, 36 ; foreign cor- 

 respondence of, 35 ; early committees 

 of, 36 ; requested to examine patents of 

 mechanical inventions, 36 ; requested to 

 direct and instruct government officials 

 going abroad, 37 ; forms a ' Repository 

 of Rarities ', 37 ; employed an emissary 

 to collect objects in Natural History, 38* ; 

 Human Anatomy undertaken by, with the 

 right to demand the bodies of criminals 

 for dissection, 39 ; the ' Philosophical 

 Transactions ' of, 39, 161, 274 ; separate 

 works published by, during the first half- 

 century, 40, and during last half of nine- 

 teenth century, 278 ; opposition offered 

 to, in its early years, 42, 47 ; Charters of, 

 48-114; Statutes of, 117-73 ; Trusts of. 

 174 ; principal Benefactors of, 193 ; 



Patrons of, 200 ; Presidents of, 200-6 ; 

 Treasurers, 206 ; Secretaries, 207 ; Foreign 

 Secretaries, 208 ; Assistant Secretaries, 

 209 ; Medallists of, 210-16 ; Croonian 

 Lecturers of, 217 ; Bakerian Lecturers 

 of, 224 ; Library of, 233 ; Instruments 

 and Historical Relics belonging to, 237 ; 

 list of Portraits in possession of, 239 ; 

 Medallions, busts, and statuettes in 

 possession of, 252 ; Medals belonging to, 

 254 ; Committees of, now in operation, 

 269 ; Grants and Committees which the 

 Royal Society controls or administers^ 

 and Institutions on the Governing Bodies 

 of which it is represented, 280 ; Educa- 

 tional and other institutions on which 

 the Society is represented, 308 ; Chrono- 

 logical Register of Fellows of, 309 ; 

 Alphabetical List of Fellows of, 432. 



Rugby School and the Royal Society, 308. 



Rumford Fund, 183, 195, 212 ; Medallists, 

 212. 



Rupert, Prince, signs the Charter-book, 

 22, 23. 



Sabine, Sir Edward, President, Treasurer, 

 Secretary, Foreign Sec., 204,207, 208,209. 



St. Andrew's Day and the Royal Society, 

 6, 23. 



Schuster, Prof. A., benefactions from, 198 r 

 199. 



Scientific Relief Committee, 272; Fund, 183. 



Sea, researches in, devised by the Royal 

 Society, in 1662, 33. 



Seal of the Royal Society, Statutes con- 

 cerning, 128, 144, 158. 



Secretaries of the Royal Society, Statutes 

 relating to, 124, 138, 153 ; List of, 207. 



Sectional Committees of the Royal Society, 

 269. 



Seismology Committee, 272. 



Sensitive plants, King Charles's inquiry 

 about, 32. 



Shadwell, Thomas, his play of The Virtuoso 

 ridicules the scientific men of the time, 45. 



Shrewsbury School and the Royal Society, 

 308. 



Siemens, Sir W., benefaction by, 197. 



Slingesby, Henry, 15. 



Sloane, Hans, benefaction by, 195 ; Presi- 

 dent, 202 ; Secretary, 207. 



Smith, Robert, D.D., benefaction by, 195. 



Soane Museum and the Royal Society, 308. 



Soiree Committee, 272. 



Solar Research Committee, 272. 



Somers, Lord, President, 201. 



Somerset House, Royal Society's apart- 

 ments in, 29. 



Sorbiere, Samuel, 45. 



Sorby Research Fund, 184 ; Committee, 

 272 ; bequest by H. C. Sorby, 198. 



South, Robert, D.D., attacked the Royal 

 Society at the Oxford Encaenia, 43. 



Southwell, Robert, 21, President, 201. 



