Index 



499 



Ramsay, Sir William, 466. 

 Ranelagh Gardens, 76. 

 Raper, Matthew, 71, 145. 

 Raper, Matthew [? son), 178, 217, 



290. 

 Raspe, Rudolf Eric, career of, 128- 



135- 



Rasumouski, Count, 95. 

 Raumer, Prof, von, 319, 320. 

 Rawlinson, Sir Henry C. 380, 381, 



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Rayleigh, Lord, 410. 

 Redesdale, Lord, 242. 

 Rees, G. O. 406. 

 Reimker, M. 272. 



Reinold, Professor A. W. 457, 458. 

 Rennell, Major, 182, 296, 300. 

 Rennie, George, 313, 345, 384. 

 Rennie, John, 230, 274. 

 Rennie, Sir John, 315, 316, 406. 

 Revedin, Count, 317. 

 Revisky, Count, 177. 

 Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 125, 191, 



196. 

 Richards, Admiral Sir George H. 



372, 399, 400, 421, 464, 465, 



471. 

 Richardson, Sir John, M.D. 299, 



360. 



Richardson, Jonathan, 12, 60. 

 Richmond, second Duke of, 26, 30. 

 Rigaud, Professor, 272, 326. 

 Riou, Capt. Edward, 196. 

 Rioting in London, 103, 149, 353. 

 Ripon, first Earl of, 295. 

 Roberts, Col. Roger E. 219. 

 Roberts-Austen, Sir W. C. 462. 

 Robertson, Abraham, 218. 

 Robins, Benjamin. 12. 

 Robinson, Thomas Romney, 302, 



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Robinson, Sir Thomas, 76. 

 Rochon, M. 190. 

 Rockingham, Marquis of, 38, 41, 



44, 155- 



Roderick, Richard, 12, 13, 60. 

 Rodney, Admiral, 155. 

 Roebuck, Dr. John, 138. 

 Rogers, Henry D. 352. 

 Roget, Dr. P. M. 292, 344, 398. 

 Rose, Sir George, 334, 345. 

 Rosebery, Earl of, 70. 

 Roscoe, Sir Henry E. 411. 



Roscoe, William, 218. 



Ross, Sir James Clark, 314, 327, 



337. 338. 34. 34 1 * 343, 39. 



Ross, Rev. Dr. John, 70. 



Ross, Capt. John, 260. 



Rosse, Laurence, fourth Earl of, 

 398, 432. 



Rosse, William, third Earl of, Pres. 

 R.S. and of the Club, 353, 358, 

 360, 362, 363, 366 ; resignation, 

 368 ; on ex officio list, 384. 



Rossel, M. de, 204. 



Roy, General William, 118, 125, 

 127, 139, 189. 



Royal Institution, 226, 284, 292, 

 306, 435. 



Royal Society, early social life of, 

 1-6 ; President and the two 

 Secretaries to be additional ex- 

 officio members of the Club, 93; 

 Foreign Secretary added to this 

 list, 96, 275 ; members of Council 

 granted the right to dine with the 

 Club, 308 ; this right rescinded 

 318; origin of the Gassiot Trust 

 Fund and Scientific Relief Fund, 

 336 ; reform in election pro- 

 cedure, 348, 427 ; 25oth anni- 

 versary of, 426 ; further reform 

 proposed, 428 ; hour of meeting 

 changed to afternoon, 430 ; offi- 

 cers of R.S. entitled to join Club 

 at once on election to their re- 

 spective offices, 468. 



Royal Society Club, earliest begin- 

 nings of, 9 ; archives of, 15, 16, 

 1 7 ; these deposited with Royal 

 Society, 461 ; original name of, 16, 

 33 ; adoption of present name, 202 ; 

 Admiral Smyth's Sketch of His- 

 tory of, 6, 377, 380, 384, 441, 461 ; 

 contemporary historical events 

 seldom alluded to in records of, 

 17, 32, 81, 103, 149, 155, 170, 

 189, 214, 216, 272, 324, 352. 



Election of members at first by 

 ballot in order of application of 

 candidates, 28 ; change to voting 

 slips adopted in 1852, 362 ; this 

 change made the law in 1860, 

 380 ; five negatives to exclude, 

 28 ; number reduced to three, 71 ; 

 three or more affirmatives to one 



