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Royal Society of London

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Date: 1600-2000
Places:
  • London
Functions, occupations and activities: Societies and Associations > Learned, scientific, literary and debating
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/C75622 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O32093 )
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1660-1800: corresp
Royal Society
RS
2
20th cent: British National Committees records
Royal Society
BNC
3
17th-18th cent: minutes, collections, charters, papers, etc
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Sloane MSS; Add MSS 2381, 4432-48, 4477, 5162-69, 6180
4
1965-71: committee records
Royal Society
HWT
NRA 31136
5
1871-1900: Kew observatory records
The National Archives
BJ1
6
1870-1981: Modern Domestic Archives
Royal Society
MDA
7
1831-1909: Referees reports
Royal Society
RR
8
1874-75: Transit of Venus expedition records
Natural History Museum Library and Archives
L MSS ROY
See Catalogue of MSS...Natural History Museum (1995)
9
1899-1904: misc corresp and papers rel to Joint Antarctic Committee, established with the Royal Geographical Society
Oxford University: Museum of Natural History
NRA 42507 Oxford
10
1967-72: collected data rel to International Biological Programme investigation of Lake George, Uganda
Natural History Museum Library and Archives
See Accessions to Repositories 1975
11
1933-1950: corresp rel to establishment and work of Academic Assistance Council
Royal Society
20100
Related record creators
  Record creator Description of relationship Dates Category of relationship
1
Lennox, Charles, (1701-1750), 2nd Duke of Richmond, Lieutenant General
Fellow
Associative
2
Saunders, William Wilson, (1809-1879), entomologist
Fellow of the Royal Society from 1853
Associative
3
Skempton, Alec Wesley, (1914-2001), Sir, Knight, civil engineer, soil mechanic
Fellow
Associative