Royal Society

noun

1. The Royal Society of London for the Advancement of Science, a society through which the British government has supported scientific investigation since 1662: awards four annual medals.

Royal Society

noun

1. an association founded in England by Charles II in 1660 to promote research in the sciences

Example Sentences

In 1667, London’s Royal Society hosted a public experiment in which a surgeon paid a man suffering from mental illness to be linked to a living sheep for a few moments via feather quills and silver pipes.

From Popular-Science

By contrast, I was elected to the British equivalent, the Royal Society.

From The Daily Beast

Prince Philip will be seen in public for the first time in two months when he visits the Royal Society of Edinburgh on 12 August.

From The Daily Beast

In 1974 he was elected to the Royal Society at the exceptionally early age of 32.

From The Daily Beast

(PDF) Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 92 (2): 60-64.

From The Daily Beast

His previous book, In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs, was shortlisted for the 2004 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize.

From The Daily Beast

Doubtless the President, in making that appointment, looked most anxiously over the list of the Royal Society.

From Project Gutenberg

I shall endeavour, therefore, to approximate to the sum these engravings have cost the Royal Society.

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It has been objected to the Royal Society, that their medals have been too much confined to a certain set.

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Under such circumstances it was published to the world in the Transactions of the Royal Society.

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Southey interprets it in the former sense, and regards it as an anticipation of the Royal Society.

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