The Yearbook of the Scientific and Learned Societies of Great Britain and Ireland

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C.Griffin, 1926 - Great Britain
 

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Page 317 - Secretary: SH Hamer. Objects. — Generally to promote the preservation of, and particularly to acquire, by gift or purchase, places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, and to hold them in trust for the Nation.
Page 194 - EC 2. (Founded October 1891 ; Incorporated by Royal Charter November 1902.) Patron. — His Majesty The King. Officers.— President: FRE Davis, OBE Secretary : CH Isdell-Carpeuter, OBE, 6 London Wall, EC 2.
Page 151 - Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom: The Laboratory, Citadel Hill, Plymouth; f.
Page 11 - DR. ALEXANDER SCOTT, MA, D.Sc., FRS This Laboratory was founded by Dr. Ludwig Mond, FRS, as a Memorial of Davy and Faraday, for the purpose of promoting, by original research, the development and extension of Chemical and Physical Science. The...
Page 148 - These recommendations having been adopted by the Government, Sir WJ Hooker, FRS, was appointed Director in 1841 to carry them out. A close connection between Kew and the Colonial and India Offices immediately sprang up. A scheme for a complete series of Colonial Floras was sanctioned in 1856, and has been steadily prosecuted. Kew serves to a large extent as an advanced horticultural school. Special attention is given to the preparation of gardeners for Colonial and Indian service, in which some 100...
Page 359 - Meetings. — In the Rooms of the Medical Society of London, 11 Chandos Street, Cavendish Square, W., on the second Tuesday in January, April, July, and October, at 4 PM Membership.
Page 148 - Banks died in 1820, and the colonial and other work of Kew languished, though it was not absolutely abandoned during the reign of George IV.
Page 278 - CLUB shall be the promotion of the study of the history and use of the Book of Common Prayer.
Page 371 - Inspection, are given in the Spring and Autumn. A Congress for the consideration of subjects relating to Hygiene, and an Exhibition of Sanitary Apparatus and Appliances, are held by the Institute annually in some provincial centre.

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