Royal Microscopical Society

Microscopical Society of Ireland

The great age of the microscope: the Collection of the Royal Microscopical Society through 150 years

himself a past President of the Royal Microscopical Society, covers in 379 pages the development of the light microscope since 1839, when the Society began. Six pages of Society history are followed by 10 describing the development of the European microscope manufacturing trade in the nineteenth century, and 8 pages introducing the reader to the catalogue. The remainder describe the 452 numbere...

The Royal Society

The causes of biological gigantism have received much attention, but only for individual organisms. What selection pressures might favour the evolution of gigantic societies? Here we consider the largest singlequeen insect societies, those of the Old World army ant Dorylus, single colonies of which can have 20 million workers. We propose that colony gigantism in Dorylus arises as a result of an...

Royal Society Congress

'TAHE first of the two annual conversaziones which A are given by the Royal Society in its rooms at Burlington House, took place on Wednesday evening, May 16. There was a large attendance, and throughout the evening interested groups were gathered round the exhibits which were shown in the Officers' Room, the Council Room, the Old Council Room, the Principal Library, the Committee Room, and the...

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