The Life of Sir Joseph Banks President of the Royal Society With Some Notices
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With his usual liberality, his purse was opened for their assistance. For example, he bore the entire cost of the copper and engraving of the twenty plates in the first volume of the Society's Trans- actions.
In the case of the Geological Society, Banks withdrew from membership ostensibly on the ground that the Council had deviated from its first principles. Really, Sir Joseph wanted the Society to be as an assistant association to the Royal Society. The body of the members preferred entire ind...ependence. Apparently there were no breaches of friendship over the matter.
258 THE LIFE OF SIR JOSEPH BANKS Ten years after this, the Astronomical Society was set on foot. This greatly disturbed Sir Joseph. He strenuously opposed it "on the ground that such an association, by robbing the Royal Society of many of its members, and affecting to engross one of its most im- portant departments, struck a severe blow at its re- spectability and usefulness. " 1 Several persons held aloof, including the Duke of Somerset, who was first invited to become the President of the new Society on the ground that it was not approved by Sir Joseph Banks.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
With his usual liberality, his purse was opened for their assistance. For example, he bore the entire cost of the copper and engraving of the twenty plates in the first volume of the Society's Trans- actions.
In the case of the Geological Society, Banks withdrew from membership ostensibly on the ground that the Council had deviated from its first principles. Really, Sir Joseph wanted the Society to be as an assistant association to the Royal Society. The body of the members preferred entire ind...ependence. Apparently there were no breaches of friendship over the matter.
258 THE LIFE OF SIR JOSEPH BANKS Ten years after this, the Astronomical Society was set on foot. This greatly disturbed Sir Joseph. He strenuously opposed it "on the ground that such an association, by robbing the Royal Society of many of its members, and affecting to engross one of its most im- portant departments, struck a severe blow at its re- spectability and usefulness. " 1 Several persons held aloof, including the Duke of Somerset, who was first invited to become the President of the new Society on the ground that it was not approved by Sir Joseph Banks.
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