| Description | List of food courses served to the Royal Society Club members at the Trocadero restaurant [Coventry Street], owned by J. Lyons & Company, caterers.
Selected menus are variously inscribed with membership or attendance lists, sketches, and occasionally with summaries of talks by members and guests: notably RSC/6/2/14, Dr. [Frederick Henry] Hatch on the 'Great Diamond' [the Cullinan diamond]; and RSC/6/2/15, Masataka Ogawa on a metal 'like aluminium', and RSC/6/2/16 William Crookes briefly noting Ogawa's 'nipponeum'. |