Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Six Discourses Delivered Before the Royal Society at Their Anniversary Meetings, on the Award of the Royal and Copley Medals: Preceded by an Address to the Society, on the Progress and Prospects of Science
When the Royal Society was instituted, it stood alone in Britain; and the associations of learned men that were formed soon after, in different parts of the empire, for pur suing natural science, were either dependent or affiliated societies. But, in these latter times, the field of know ledge has become so extensive, and its objects so various, that separate and independent bodies have arisen for regis tering observations or collecting facts, each in a different department. It would be impossible that our records, ason the Progress and Prospects of Science.
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