| Description | Press cuttings and other printed information concerning the Royal Society and its Fellows. Compiled by the organisation's staff. The volume contains some obituaries and death notices, including: Bertram Hopkinson's aircraft crash (p.7); Reginald Philip Gregory, from influenza (p.17); William Crookes (pp.27-29); John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (p.34); Srinivasa Ramanujan (p.66); William de Wiveleslie Abney (p.74); James Dewar (p.100); Henry Hayden's climbing accident (pp.101-102); and many others.
Cuttings also include accounts of the Royal Society's conversaziones, anniversary meetings, award of medals and other events. Other content: the ostracism of German scientists after the First World War (p.1, pp.7-9, pp.15-17); scientists in Parliament (pp.22-23); Ernest Rutherford's work in Manchester and appointment to Cambridge University (pp.28-29); Henry Moseley's death at Gallipoli (pp.44-46); Albert Einstein and the 1919 Eclipse expeditions, 'Newtonian ideas overthrown' (pp.48-54); Mackie Expedition to Uganda (pp.67-72); Charles Russ and 'a new force' [pseudoscience] (pp.83-84); Yarrow Professorships (pp.103-106). Other topics are highly varied. There are letters to the editors of the various newspapers.
These cuttings are attributed to the source newspaper and dated in manuscript. A paper label on the cover is inscribed: 'Royal Society Scrap Book 1918-1926.' |