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Royal Institution

British  

noun

  1. a British society founded in 1799 for the dissemination of scientific knowledge

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The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors said Thursday that both buyer demand and sales volumes are in negative territory, with a pickup not expected until the Spring selling season next year.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025

More successes followed in the 1970s and 1980s, including "Arcadia", which in 2006 was one of four works shortlisted by the Royal Institution of Great Britain as the best book ever written about science.

From Barron's • Nov. 29, 2025

I talk about in the book how once upon a time the Royal Institution was supported by the love or size of three other institutions.

From Salon • Nov. 30, 2023

Zoe Kurland: John Tyndall was working as a professor of natural philosophy at The Royal Institution in London, publishing research in European journals.

From Scientific American • Nov. 9, 2023

Huxley gave, in Macmillan's Magazine for December, an analysis of the Origin, together with the substance of his Royal Institution lecture, delivered before the publication of the book.

From Charles Darwin: His Life in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters by Darwin, Charles