Joint Meeting of the Royal Society of Medicine (Section of Psychiatry) and the Royal Medico-Psychological Association (Maudsley Bequest) Anglo-American Symposium

1958 ◽  
Vol 104 (435) ◽  
pp. 491-491
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Joint Meeting ◽  
Anglo American

Editorial: The American Bicentenary and Anglo-American intellectual relations

1977 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-177
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
The United States ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Joint Meeting ◽  
Isaiah Berlin ◽  
Declaration Of Independence ◽  
The Subject ◽  
American Intellectual ◽  
Anglo American

Towards the end of 1974 Dr Charles Ritcheson, the United States Cultural Attache in London, suggested that the Royal Society and the British Academy might hold a joint discussion meeting to mark the Bicentenary of the American Declaration of Independence. The Society and the Academy therefore formed a committee, consisting of Lord Todd, P.R.S., Sir Isaiah Berlin, P.B.A., Lord Ashby, Sir Kingsley Dunham, Professor R. V. Jones, Sir David Martin, Professor A. G. Dickens, Professor H. G. Nicholas and Dr N. J. Williams, to consider this proposal and the committee recommended that a joint meeting should be held in the Society’s rooms on 29 and 30 June 1976, and that the subject should be Anglo-American Intellectual Relations principally—though not exclusively—in the Colonial Period.

Welcome and introduction

1989 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-96
Keyword(s):  
Advisory Committee ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Imperial College ◽  
Joint Meeting ◽  
Emeritus Professor ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University

It is my pleasant duty to welcome you all most warmly to this meeting, which is one of the many events stimulated by the advisory committee of the William and Mary Trust on Science and Technology and Medicine, under the Chairmanship of Sir Arnold Burgen, the immediate past Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society. This is a joint meeting of the Royal Society and the British Academy, whose President, Sir Randolph Quirk, will be Chairman this afternoon, and it covers Science and Civilization under William and Mary, presumably with the intention that the Society would cover Science if the Academy would cover Civilization. The meeting has been organized by Professor Rupert Hall, a Fellow of the Academy and also well known to the Society, who is now Emeritus Professor of the History of Science and Technology at Imperial College in the University of London; and Mr Norman Robinson, who retired in 1988 as Librarian to the Royal Society after 40 years service to the Society.

G. W. Featherstonhaugh, F. R. S., 1780-1866, Anglo-American scientist

1955 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 228-235 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
National Biography ◽  
American Scientist ◽  
Revolutionary Science ◽  
Gordon Riots

In his article ‘Americans and the Royal Society 1783-1937’ R. Heathcote Heindel (I)* tabulates the American Fellows of the Royal Society, including those fellows elected as home members and those elected as foreign fellows of another country, but omits the Anglo-American G. W. Featherstonhaugh, who has claims to inclusion. This omission is understandable, for Featherstonhaugh has not been included in the standard biographical dictionaries of either country: The Dictionary of National Biography and the Dictionary of American Biography both omit him, yet his work both as a scientist and as a popularizer of science deserve some consideration (2). G. W. Featherstonhaugh was a strange figure in a strange age: a tall, gaunt, teetotal, non-smoking devotee of the exciting and revolutionary science of geology. By birth an Englishman, whose father was descended from Sir Matthew Featherstonhaugh of Featherstonhaugh Castle, Northumberland, and whose mother had fled from London at the time of the Gordon riots and settled in Yorkshire, he lived in Yorkshire as a boy. He later travelled, acquired a fair command of foreign languages, and with many letters of introduction came to America, where, being an accomplished musician, he made many friends.

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