Letter: 1839 Mar. 24, St. Leonards on sea [Sussex] to David Laing, Signet Library, Edinburgh / Beriah Botfield. 1839.

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Letter: 1839 Mar. 24, St. Leonards on sea [Sussex] to David Laing, Signet Library, Edinburgh / Beriah Botfield. 1839.

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Discusses his admission to the Bannatyne Club and his recent election as a fellow of the Royal Society.

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University of Edinburgh - Main Library, Edinburgh University Library

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University of Edinburgh - Main Library, Edinburgh University Library

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The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge began in 1645 when a group of eminent British thinkers started to meet regularly in London to discuss the new, experimental philosophies of science. Though the English Civil War and the Cromwellian Protectorate interrupted its meetings, the Society was formally constituted in 1660. Two years later King Charles II granted the Society its first charter. A second royal charter was granted in 1663 when the Society was given its official nam...