Sketches of the Royal Society and Royal Society Club

By:

John Barrow

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century

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Sir John Barrow (1764–1848) was a distinguished British government diplomat whose career took him to China and Africa, and who in forty years as Secretary to the Admiralty was responsible for promoting Arctic and Antarctic exploration. A close friend of Sir Joseph Banks, he served on the Council of the Royal Society and as President of the Royal Geographical Society. Sketches of the Royal Society and Royal Society Club was published posthumously in 1849, as a supplement to Barrow's autobiography (also published in this series). It consists of a brief history of the societies, followed by a series of memoirs of presidents of the Royal Society of Barrow's time, and of other leading members of the Society and the Royal Society Club, the elite dining club associated with it. The biographies provide abundant evidence of the central importance of the Royal Society to scientific life in nineteenth-century Britain.

Release date NZ

February 17th, 2011

Author

John Barrow

Audience

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Illustrations

1 Plates, black and white

Pages

228

Series

Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century

Dimensions

140x216x13

ISBN-13

9781108028165

Product ID

10132223

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