Royal Microscopical Society - List of Fellows

Date:: 18 May1892

Reference:: WA/HMM/CM/Sal/47/5

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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Royal Microscopical Society - List of Fellows. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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to extend its operations, and to give it a more permanent establish- ment among the scientific institutions of our kingdom, we have been besought to grant to. James Glashier, Fellow of the Royal Society, the present President of the said Society, and to those who now are or shall hereafter become members of the said Society, our Royal Charter of Incorporation for the purposes aforesaid : Now know YE THAT WE, being desirous of encouraging a design so laudable and salutary, of our especial grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, have willed, granted, and declared, and do by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors, will, grant and declare that the said James Glaisher, and such other of our loving subjects as now are members of the said Society, or shall from time to time be elected Fellows thereof, according to such regulations or bye-laws as shall be hereafter framed or enacted, and their successors shall for ever hereafter be by virtue of these presents one body politic and corporate, by the name of “ The Microscopical Society of London ” ; * and for the purposes aforesaid, and by the name aforesaid, shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, with full power and authority to alter, vary, break, and renew the same at their discretion, and by ~ the same name to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, answer and be answered, unto and in every court of us, our heirs and suc- cessors, and be for ever able and capable in the law to purchase, receive, possess, hold and enjoy, to them and their successors, any goods and chattels whatsoever, and also to be able and capable in the law (notwithstanding the Statute of Mortmain) to take, purchase, hold, and enjoy to them and their successors a hall or house, and any such messuages, lands, tenements, or hereditaments whatsoever as may be necessary or expedient for carrying out the purposes of the Society, the yearly value of which, including the site of the said hall or house, shall not exceed in the whole the sum of 1000/., computing the same respectively at the time of the purchase or acquisition thereof, and to act in all the concerns of the said body politic and corporate as effectually, to all intents and purposes, as any other of our hege sub- jects, or any other body politic or corporate in our said kingdom, not being under any disability, might do in their respective concerns. And we do hereby grant our special licence and authority unto all and every person and persons, bodies politic and corporate (otherwise competent), to grant, sell, alien and convey in mortmain unto and to the use of the said body politic and corporate and their successors any messuages, lands, tenements, or hereditaments not exceeding such annual value as aforesaid. 7 And our will and pleasure is, and we further grant and declare, * On the lst November, 1866, Mr. Secretary Walpole notified to the President that Her Majesty had been graciously pleased “to command that the Society shall be styled the Royal Microscopical Society.”