Royal Society

Her academic career took her almost around the world. First she went to Japan for two years, from 1907, to be attached to the University of Tokyo on a research grant from the Royal Society

CH 's An Account of a New Comet (her recent discovery) was read for her at a meeting of the Royal Society . The account was printed by John Nichols as a pamphlet the following year.

The Royal Society issued, with her name, CH 's Catalogue of Stars, an updating and radical expansion of Flamsteed 's canonical but by now inadequate catalogue of fixed stars (published in 1725).

This has only a single prefatory piece. Cavendish here makes use of empirical science: the Royal Society 's experiments with blood transfusion, recently reported.

A strangely static book, this novel is in form a stream of reminiscence by an aged female protagonist, who mixes past and present, without consecutive narrative. (This is actually a slightly more conventional version than...

During Elizabeth's mother's lifetime the Tollet family lived at York Buildings, near Whitehall Palace, London, where George Tollet also probably had his office. The buildings were a centre of intellectual life: a select group...

The Royal Society of London commissioned Sir Francis Chantrey to sculpt MS 's bust for their Great Hall.

Herschel observed that nothing beyond the name in the title-page. . . remind[s] us of its coming from a female hand, and that his response to Somerville's text was one of unfeigned delight and...

After conducting a set of experiments on the effect of sunlight on vegetable juices, MS sent a report of her method and results to John Herschel , who presented her findings to the Royal Society .

The results of MS 's first experimental investigation of the connection between light and magnetism were presented to the Royal Society by William Somerville ; they later appeared in the Society's Philosophical Transactions.

Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle , on a rare visit to London with her husband , was entertained by the Royal Society as a distinguished visitor.

AA enjoyed unusual acceptance into traditionally masculine circles including learned societies, as a result of her father's involvement in (especially) the British Museum and the Royal Society . She became a pioneer in the field...

She had lost her brother to smallpox, and narrowly escaped herself. She probably went to Turkey primed with accounts which had reached the Royal Society in London of the Turkish practice of inoculation, and determined...

One of her pupils, her niece Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923), became a suffragist and a friend of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon and George Eliot . She obtained only third-class degree results at the end her studies...

Isaac Newton was elected President of the Royal Society .