Thehabits both of obedience and command, which are essential inmilitary life, are little fitted for that perfect freedom whichshould reign in the councils of science.  If a military chiefcommit an oversight or an error, it is necessary, in order toretain the confidence of those he commands, to conceal or mask itas much as possible.  If an experimentalist make a mistake, hisonly course to ...

Of course, when Mr. Gilbert accepted thehigher situation, he became, EX OFFICIO, a Member of the Board ofLongitude; and a vacancy occurred, which ought to have beenfilled up by the President and Council.  But when this subjectwas brought before them, in defiance of common sense, and theplain meaning of the act of parliament, which had enacted thatthe Board of Microsoft Office 2010...

 It used, until lately,to be ten pounds on entrance, and four pounds annually. Theamount of this subscription is so large, that it is calculated toprevent many men of real science from entering the Society, andis a very severe tax on those who do so; for very few indeed ofthe cultivators of science rank amongst the wealthy classes.Several times, whilst I have been consulting books or ...

 As with a singular inversionof principle, the society contrived to render EXPULSION* thehighest HONOUR it could confer; so it remains for it toexemplify, in suicide, the sublimest virtue of which it iscapable. [* They expelled from amongst them a gentleman, of whomit is but slight praise to say, that he is the first and mostphilosophical botanist of our own country, and who I love ...

 The largenessof its income is a frightful consideration.  It is too temptingas the subject for jobs, and it is too fluctuating and uncertainin its amount, not to render embarrassment in the affairs of theSociety a circumstance likely to occur, without the greatestcircumspection.  It is most probable, from the very recentformation of this Institution, that its Officers and Council areat ...