Record

RefNoRSC/6/15
LevelFile
TitleRoyal Society Club dinner menus
Date20 January-8 December 1921
DescriptionList of food courses served to the Royal Society Club members at the Maison Jules, Jermyn Street.

Selected menus are variously inscribed with lists of attendees, seating plans, membership proposals, and some other notes, including: RSC/6/14/3 'Sir S.F. Harmer gave an account of some experiments at N.P.L. in order to estimate the liability of the danger of storing alcohol...'; RSC/6/14/4 'The Revd. John Roscoe described some interesting customs &c., of the natives of Uganda; RSC/6/16/7 'Dr. A.Scott made a communication on the alteration of a set of weights due to the oxidation of the lead used in their adjustment mounting...'; RSC/6/15/8 'Dr. Michelson [and others] described a new form of survey mark...'; RSC/6/15/10 'Dr. S.F. Harmer gave an interesting account of the problems arising from whaling in the Antarctic...'; RSC/6/15/16 'Professor Herdman gave some interesting facts as regards the formation of pearls...'; and RSC/6/15/22 'Mr. W. Heape showed and described the fracture of lamp bulbs filled with water...and high speed photographs...of an India rubber ball fired at a target'.
Extent1 file; 26 items
FormatPrinted
Manuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
DimensionsVarious sizes
AccessStatusOpen
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