FRS
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From Scientific American
Last week the high officers of the Mint assembled at the Treasury, and in their presence the Lord Chancellor charged the jury to examine the coin of the late Master of the Mint, Thomas Graham, F.R.S., and to ascertain whether it was within the latitude of “remedy” allowed by law.
From Nature
He appears to have been very generally misunderstood, judging from the publication of six lectures delivered to workingmen, by Thomas H. Huxley, F.R.S.
From Scientific American
It is scarcely possible to pass by John Abernethy, f.r.s., the eccentric physician, whose principle was that men should eat to live, not live to eat, who maintained that the stomach was the chief seat of health or disease, according as it was used or abused, and that water was the one natural and nutrient beverage.
From Project Gutenberg
Meanwhile he had commenced in 1826 to communicate papers on mining subjects to the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, and the Geological Society of London, and in 1840 he was elected F.R.S.
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