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Astronomical Society

Categories: Science

From the picture source website: "... conceived on 12 January 1820 when 14 gentlemen sat down to dinner at the Freemason's Tavern, in Lincoln's Inn Fields .... the new Society was born on 10 March 1820 with the first meeting of the Council and the Society as a whole."  Became the Royal Astronomical Society in 1831.

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Astronomical Society

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William Wollaston - lost plaque

We 'discovered' this lost plaque while researching Sir Frederick Hopkins. Fr...

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CIWEM

CIWEM

Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management

Group, Engineering, Science

2 memorials
Raymond Gosling

Raymond Gosling

Raymond George Gosling was born on 15 July 1926 the son of George Leonard Gosling (1903-1970) and Lena Gosling née Guarniere (b.1904). His birth was registered in the Pancras registration district ...

Person, Science

2 memorials
Henry Doubleday

Henry Doubleday

Naturalist. Born at 62 (the site of which is now number 271) High Street, Epping, Essex. He was the author of the first catalogue of British butterflies and moths, and named a number of new species...

Person, Science

1 memorial
Captain William Mudge

Captain William Mudge

Surveyor. Born Plymouth, godson of Samuel Johnson. Served in South Carolina. 1791 joined the Ordnance Trigonometrical Survey and became its director in 1798. Thus a very important figure in the wor...

Person, Armed Forces, Science, USA

1 memorial
William Hyde Wollaston

William Hyde Wollaston

Chemist and physicist. Born Norfolk. Trained and worked as a doctor. 1797 moved to London and in 1801 stopped working and concentrated on his interests, setting up a private laboratory at 14 Buckin...

Person, Science

1 memorial