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  <dc:title>Dinner menus of the Royal Society Club</dc:title>
  <dc:description>List of food courses served to the Royal Society Club members at the Trocadero restaurant [Coventry Street], owned by J. Lyons &amp; 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'.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>19 January-23 November 1905</dc:date>
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