The Royal Society is a self-governing Fellowship of many of the world's most distinguished scientists drawn from all areas of science, engineering and medicine, and is the oldest scientific academy in ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The inscriptions on the face of this ...

THE British Association has recently received from Miss Hooker, daughter of Sir Joseph Hooker, a gift of the aneroid barometer which used to hang by the fireplace in Charles Darwin's ‘old study’ at ...

M.LÉON TEISSERENC DE BORT has invented an aneroid mirror barometer, which is described in a recent number of La Nature. It is based on a method analogous to that well-known since the researches of ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is a brass instrument, 4¾ inches ...