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Authorised form of nameBrooke; Charles (1804 - 1879)
Dates1804 - 1879
Date of birth30 June 1804
Place of deathWeymouth
Date of death17 May 1879
OccupationSurgeon
ActivityEducation:
BA, BD (St John's College, Cambridge)
Career:
Surgeon and lecturer on surgery, Westminster Hospital, resigned (1869); helped Golding Bird (FRS 1846) with the 4th edition of his 'Elements of natural philosophy'.
Memberships:
MRCS (1834); FRCP (1844); FRMS (President 1865-1866)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election04/03/1847
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1879-1880 vol 30 pp i-ii
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/125427
CodeNA7650
Archives associated with this Fellow
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RR/2/20Referee's report by Charles Brooke, on a paper 'An experimental inquiry undertaken with the view of ascertaining whether any, and what signs of current force are manifested during the organic process of secretion in living animals (continued)' by Henry Foster Baxter22 June 1852
IM/000587Group lithograph of Royal Microscopical Society Presidentsnd
EC/1847/06Brooke, Charles: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MC/2Volume 2 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1832-1838
RR/2/40Referee's report by Edward Sabine, on a paper 'On the automatic temperature-compensation of the force magnetometers' by Charles Brooke29 October 1857
MC/5/194Letter from Chas [Charles] Brooke, 29 Keppel Street, to [Lord Wrottesley], the President of the Royal Society and to the Council25 January 1855
MC/5Volume 5 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1851-1858
MS/257/1/233Letter from Charles Brooke, 29 Keppel Street to Edward Sabine17 February 1847
MS/257/1/239Letter from Charles Brooke, Sandgate to Edward SabineAugust 1849
MC/8/25Letter from Ch S [Charles] Brooke, 16 Fitzroy Square, to [Sir Edward Sabine], President of the Royal Society8 March 1867
RR/2/75Referee's report by Charles Brooke, on a paper 'Researches into the identity of the existences or forces, light, heat, electricity and magnetism' by John Goodman1854
AP/28/2Paper, 'On the automatic registration of magnetometers and other meteorological instruments, by photography' by Charles BrookeJuly 1846
AP/28/2/1Manuscript, 'On the automatic registration of magnetometers and other meteorological instruments, by photography' by Charles BrookeJuly 1845
AP/28/2/2Appendix, 'On the automatic registration of magnetometers and other meteorological instruments, by photography' by Charles BrookeJuly 1845
AP/28/1Unpublished paper, 'Description of a method of registering magnetic variations' by Charles Brooke16 June 1846
RR/2/81Referee's report by Charles Brooke, on a paper 'On the relation of the angular aperture of the object-glasses of compound microscopes to their penetrating power and to oblique light' by J W Griffith30 May 1854
MC/12/13Letter from J H [John Hall] Gladstone, 17 Pembridge Square, to Wm [William] Spottiswoode, President of the Royal Society3 February 1880
AP/37/14Unpublished paper, 'The physical theory of muscular contraction' by Charles Bland Radcliffe1854
AP/36/16Unpublished paper, 'On a new and more correct method of determining the angle of aperture of microscopic object glasses' by William S Gillet1854
MC/12Volume 12 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1880-1883
MS/257/1/235Letter from Charles Brooke, 29 Keppel Street to Edward Sabine10 November 1847
MS/257/1/236Letter from Charles Brooke, 29 Keppel Street to Edward Sabine9 October 1848
AP/52/10Unpublished paper, 'Researches in animal electricity' by Charles Bland Radcliffe1870
AP/52/10/1Unpublished manuscript, 'Researches in animal electricity' by Charles Bland Radcliffe1870
MC/8Volume 8 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1867-1869
MS/257/1/238Letter from Charles Brooke, Sandgate to Edward Sabine28 July 1849
MS/257/1/234Letter from Charles Brooke, 29 Keppel Street to Edward Sabine11 September 1847
MS/257/1/237Letter from Charles Brooke, 29 Keppel Street to Edward Sabine15 June 1846
RR/2/22Referee's report by Charles Brooke, on a paper 'An experimental inquiry undertaken with the view of ascertaining whther any and what signs of current force are manifested during the organic process of nutrition (assimilation) in living animals' by Henry Foster Baxter17 February 1853
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