| Description | Obituaries and other articles, drawn exclusively from the journal 'Nature', concerning the Royal Society and its Fellows. Compiled by the organisation's staff. Mainly obituaries, including: Robert Scott Troup (p.1); Sigmund Freud (p.2) William Jackson Pope (p.3); Ralph Allen Sampson (p.4); Wilfred Trotter (p.9; Gilbert Morgan (p.10) Sydney J Hickson (p.12); Edmund Neville Nevill (p.13); Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton (p.14) Thomas Heath (p.21); John Henry Michell (p.22); Waldemar Christofer Brøgger (p.23); Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher 9p.694); Alfred Cort Haddon (p.26); Charles Barrois (p.28); Jocelyn Thorpe (p.29); Alfred Fowler (p.30); Arthur Harden (p.32); Louisa Charlotte Tyndall (p.34); Oiver Lodge (p.35); Joseph John Thompson (pp.38-41); Ausustus Edward Hough Love (pp.42-43); Charles Gabriel Seligman (pp.44-45); Henry Head (p.46); Robert Hadfield (p.47); Frederick Wallace Edwards (p.48); Ernest William MacBride (p.50); Alfred Young (p.51); Miles Walker 9p.54); Henry Selby Hele-Shaw (p.55); Cresswell Shearer (p.56); Vito Volterra (p.57); Frederick Banting (p.61); Herbert Freundlich (p.63); George William Clarkson Kaye (p.64); James George Frazer (p.65); Albert Seward (p.69); Arthur Lapworth (p.71).
Among the non-obituary material is: William Bragg on x-ray analysis (pp.6-7); a review of the 1940 'Record of the Royal Society' (p.27); Archibald Vivian Hill on 'Science, national and international, and the basis of co-operation' (pp.52-53); and Agnes Arber on the 'Tercentenary of Nehemiah Grew' (pp.66-67).
The volume is blank from p.72 onward. A paper label on the cover is inscribed: 'Oct 1939 Royal Society Scrap Book General June 1941.' |