Royal Society

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Friends, Associates Mary Somerville
In London the Somervilles enjoyed participating in a rich scientific community: Mary's time there was much happier than during her first marriage. She attended many lectures at the Royal Institution , and took lessons in...
Literary responses Catharine Trotter
Nineteenth-century literary historians—Charles Dibdin , John Doran , Jane Williams —tended, though from different viewpoints, to subordinate her writings to her supposed personal characteristics.
Clark, Constance. Three Augustan Women Playwrights. Peter Lang.
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More disappointingly, a feminist literary historian of the early...
Occupation Marion Moss
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...
Occupation Sir Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton was elected President of the Royal Society .
Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Cambridge University Press.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Occupation Sir Isaac Newton
The telescope brought him fame and an invitation to join the Royal Society , though it also brought an acrimonious controversy with Robert Hooke .
Occupation John Dryden
By this time Dryden's two careers as writer and dramatist were well launched. The first depended on his ability to please the Stuart court, and the second on his ability to please a theatre audience...
Occupation Ruth Padel
RP has seen her commitment to poetry as including a commitment to encouraging and instructing readers of it. Invited by the Poetry Society to stand for election as its Chair, she was persuaded to do...
Occupation Anna Williams
When she was first in London AW found plenty to occupy her, both activities undertaken for interest and those undertaken for earnings to support herself and her father. She became an assistant to Zachary Williams
Occupation Anna Atkins
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...
Occupation Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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...
Other Life Event Margaret Cavendish
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle , on a rare visit to London with her husband , was entertained by the Royal Society as a distinguished visitor.
Jones, Kathleen. A Glorious Fame: The Life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, 1623-1673. Bloomsbury.
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Publishing Mary Somerville
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.
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. “Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville (1780-1872)”. Women of Mathematics: A Biobiliographic Sourcebook, edited by Louise S. Grinstein and Paul J. Campbell, Greenwood Press, pp. 208-16.
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Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff.
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Publishing Mary Somerville
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 .
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. “Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville (1780-1872)”. Women of Mathematics: A Biobiliographic Sourcebook, edited by Louise S. Grinstein and Paul J. Campbell, Greenwood Press, pp. 208-16.
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Reception Mary Somerville
The Royal Society of London commissioned Sir Francis Chantrey to sculpt MS 's bust for their Great Hall.
Somerville, Mary. Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville. Editor Somerville, Martha, Roberts Brothers.
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Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff.
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Reception Mary Somerville
Herschel observed that nothing beyond the name in the title-page. . . remind[s] us of its coming from a female hand,
Patterson, Elizabeth Chambers. Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815-1840. Martinus Nijhoff.
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and that his response to Somerville's text was one of unfeigned delight and...

Timeline

28 October 1831: Michael Faraday successfully demonstrated...

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28 October 1831

Michael Faraday successfully demonstrated the induction of electromagnetic current.

25 January 1839: William Henry Fox Talbot's invention, photogenic...

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25 January 1839

William Henry Fox Talbot 's invention, photogenic drawing (using what later became known as a photographic negative), was exhibited by Michael Faraday to the Royal Society in London.

Early 1839: The first photogenic drawing kits were made...

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Early 1839

The first photogenic drawing kits were made and sold by Ackermann and Company of London.

1848: Doctor Hugh Welch Diamond became resident...

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1848

Doctor Hugh Welch Diamond became resident physician of the female ward at Surrey County Asylum; he introduced the concept of psychiatric photography for female surveillance.

1854: The Scottish Curative Mesmeric Association...

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1854

The Scottish Curative Mesmeric Association was founded; its supporters included Sir Thomas Makdougall-Brisbane , President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

1862: Educator Anne Sheepshanks was awarded honorary...

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1862

Educator Anne Sheepshanks was awarded honorary membership in the Royal Society .

1904: The first scientific paper read by a woman...

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1904

The first scientific paper read by a woman for the Royal Society was delivered by Hertha Ayrton .

6 November 1919: Published observations of a solar eclipse,...

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6 November 1919

Published observations of a solar eclipse, made in Brazil and West Africa by two sets of British astronomers, confirmed Albert Einstein 's theory of relativity.

1945: The Royal Society decided to open its membership...

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1945

The Royal Society decided to open its membership to women, and admitted crystallographer Kathleen Lonsdale (a pacifist during World War II) as its first female Fellow.

1991: The Royal Society appointed a woman officer...

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1991

The Royal Society appointed a woman officer for the first time: Anne McLaren , an embryologist, became its Foreign Secretary.

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