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Cook, A. "Report. Migrants to The Royal Society, 1930–1940." Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 58, no. 3 (September 22, 2004): 303–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2004.0068.

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It is well known that after the Nazi Party came to power in Germany, many scholars, musicians, artists and writers were expelled or found it impossible to continue to work in Gemany. Scientists also, especially those of Jewish descent or connections, similarly left Germany and countries that came under the influence of Germany. Many of those artists, scholars and scientists who came to Britain stimulated the efflorescence of intellectual, artistic and scientific life in the years after the end of World War II. Those influences have been described in a number of books, albeit mostly in rather general terms. The list that is the subject of this note includes by contrast all Fellows and Foreign Members of the Society, so far as it has been possible to identify them, who after leaving for Britain or for other lands, were elected to the Society (electronic Appendix A).

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Golding, Rosemary. "The Society of Arts and the Challenge of Professional Music Education in 1860s Britain." Journal of Historical Research in Music Education 38, no. 2 (January 18, 2017): 128–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1536600616684579.

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Higher-level music education was in a poor state in mid-nineteenth-century Britain. In particular, the country’s most significant conservatoire, the Royal Academy of Music in London, suffered from a lack of financial support, poor management, and a reputation for mediocre teaching and amateurish standards. Responding to the need for an overhaul, the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce launched an investigation into the management of the Royal Academy of Music in 1865. The Society’s Committee interviewed a range of high-profile figures from Britain and abroad. The reports and debates that ensued cast light not only on the state of the Royal Academy but also on the organization of professional music training across the United Kingdom and elsewhere in Europe. Many of these discussions revealed important insights into attitudes toward musical training and its institutions, toward the music profession, and toward music itself. Musicians interviewed for the purpose of the Royal Academy report had varying opinions on the curriculum suitable for aspiring professional musicians, including the role of general education and theoretical music studies. The place of amateurs in such institutions was also an important part of the discussion, both in terms of the students admitted and institutional management. Fundamental divisions over the purpose and nature of professional-level education in music reflect both the changing nature of education and deep fractures in the music profession itself, offering valuable insights into the concerns and problems of the time.

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Unwin, Patrick R., and Robert W. Unwin. "Humphry Davy and the Royal Institution of Great Britain." Notes and Records of the Royal Society 63, no. 1 (July 28, 2008): 7–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2008.0010.

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The abortive attempts of Sir Humphry Davy to introduce modest reforms at the Royal Society of London during his Presidency (1820–27) contrast with his (largely unstudied) earlier experience of administration at the Royal Institution of Great Britain (RI). Davy's attempts to combat the systemic weaknesses in governance and funding, and his role in effecting changes at the RI, in association with a core group of reformers, merit consideration. This paper analyses important aspects of the early management and social structure of the RI and examines the inner workings of the institution. It shows how and why the Library, its most valuable financial asset, and its celebrated Laboratory, developed along distinctive lines, each with its own support structures and intra-institutional interests. While acknowledging the roles traditionally ascribed to Count Rumford and Sir Joseph Banks, the paper highlights the contributions of other early patrons such as Thomas Bernard, son of a colonial governor of Massachusetts, and Earl Spencer, a leading European bibliophile and RI President from 1813 to 1825. The promotion of a Bill in Parliament in 1810, designed to transform the RI from a proprietary body politic into a corporation of members, and the subsequent framing of the bye-laws, provided opportunities to establish a more democratic structure of elected committees for the conduct of science.

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Baker, David. "Visually impaired musicians’ insights: narratives of childhood, lifelong learning and musical participation." British Journal of Music Education 31, no. 2 (March 24, 2014): 113–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0265051714000072.

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With the support of the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), the life histories of five visually impaired (VI) musicians were collected and analysed between November 2011 and August 2012. This research was conducted as a pilot for a two-year, national investigation of VI musical participation, ‘Visually-impaired musicians’ lives’ (VIML) funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC, 2013–2015), which has brought together the Institute of Education, University of London, the RNIB and the Royal Academy of Music, London as project partners. In this instance, life histories were co-constructed narratives – foci were the self-identities of this unique group and ‘insider’ perspectives on education, musical participation and society. Analytic induction of the biographies revealed that a perceived barrier to lifelong learning was having the ability to read notation, either adapted print or in Braille format, and the access to educators who had expertise to teach musicians with visual impairments. The respondents commented on the great value of ensemble participation and adopting teaching roles too. With widespread lore in society about the exceptional musical abilities of those with visual impairment, longstanding traditions of blind musicianship, plus evidence of distinct neural development and hearing, they acknowledged the cachet associated with blind musicians but, regardless, wished to be considered musicians first and foremost. The findings raise questions about social and music educational inclusion.

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Bewley, Thomas. "Psychiatrist Fellows of the Royal Society." Psychiatric Bulletin 22, no. 6 (June 1998): 377–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.22.6.377.

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The Royal Society is the oldest scientific society in Great Britain and one of the earliest in Europe. It is usually considered to have been founded in 1660, though a nucleus had been in existence for several years before that date. From Charles II's reign onwards, British Governments have constantly appealed to the Royal Society for advice in connection with scientific undertakings. The Society elects some 32 Fellows annually, who have been proposed by six or more existing Fellows. Foreign Members, not exceeding 50 in all, may be selected by the Council from among “men of the greatest scientific eminence” abroad. From this it can be seen that Fellows of the Royal Society are among the most distinguished scientists in the country. It is not widely known that several psychiatrists have been Fellows of the Royal Society.

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Crowther, M. A., and S. W. F. Holloway. "The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, 1841-1991: A Political and Social History." Economic History Review 46, no. 2 (May 1993): 414. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2598032.

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Sturgess, R., and I. Harrison. "Statutory Regulation of the Professional Conduct of Pharmacists in Great Britain and the USA." Medical Law International 2, no. 1 (September 1995): 39–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/096853329500200103.

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The concept and regulation of a code of ethics and professional conduct are approached differently in Great Britain and the USA. In Great Britain, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society has no definition of professional conduct, its Code of Ethics covering only those items upon which it believes that it must make a comment or explanation. Individual States in the USA have definitions of professional conduct, which are defined and regulated by the State legal system.

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NERSESSIAN, VREJ NERSES. "Two Armenian manuscripts in the Library of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Second Manuscript." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 27, no. 3 (May 15, 2017): 359–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1356186317000165.

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The Royal Asiatic Society's manuscript of the Chronicle [«Գաւազանա գիրք»] of Georg Khubov: a unique source of Armenian political aspirations for independence in the 18 th and first half of the 19th century. (RAS. Arm. Ms. no.2)

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&NA;. "The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain has advised consumers to be cautious when purchasing medicines online." Reactions Weekly &NA;, no. 1249 (April 2009): 3. http://dx.doi.org/10.2165/00128415-200912490-00005.

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Macfarlane, M. C. "English Delftware Drug Jars. The Collection of the Museum of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain." Journal of the History of Collections 18, no. 2 (June 29, 2006): 290–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhl032.

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Salaman, William. "The Role of Graded Examinations in Music." British Journal of Music Education 11, no. 3 (November 1994): 209–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0265051700002175.

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The perceived benefits of graded examinations are compared with the actual benefits that they bring and are then weighed against the more general and widely accepted desirable outcomes of musical education in Great Britain. The syllabus of a typical graded examination is analysed in some detail and the conclusions drawn suggest that the time-honoured format of graded examinations serves only some of the musical needs of pupils. Some radical suggestions for up-dating examinations are discussed.This article is based on some of the materials prepared for the certificate course: Music Teaching in Private Practice to be mounted by the University of Reading Department of Arts and Humanities in Education in collaboration with the Incorporated Society of Musicians.

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Rose, Edward. "British pioneers of the geology of Gibraltar, Part 1: the artilleryman Thomas James (ca 1720-1782); infantryman Ninian Imrie of Denmuir (ca 1752-1820); and ex-militiaman James Smith of Jordanhill (1782-1867)." Earth Sciences History 32, no. 2 (January 1, 2013): 252–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.17704/eshi.32.2.y46w1v7758755766.

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The rocky peninsula of Gibraltar juts south from Spain at the western entrance to the Mediterranean Sea. Long famous as a landmark, it was ceded to Great Britain by the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, and progressively developed as a naval and military base. Thomas James, a Royal Artillery officer stationed on Gibraltar from 1749 to 1755, was the first member of the British garrison to publish geological observations on the Rock, within a book of 1771 completed in New York. His military career culminated after active service against revolutionary Americans, finally in the rank of major-general, but with no further known contributions to geology. The Scotsman Ninian Imrie of Denmuir, an officer of the First Regiment of Foot (The Royal Scots), served on Gibraltar within the period 1784 to 1793, and was the first to publish an account specifically on its geology, in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1798. A career soldier, he achieved the rank of lieutenant-colonel before retiring to Scotland, and to amateur geological studies influenced by active membership of Edinburgh's Wernerian Natural History Society. James Smith of Jordanhill, near Glasgow, served in Great Britain in the Renfrewshire Militia during the Napoleonic Wars but, benefiting from a family fortune, later spent much time as a yachtsman and scholar of wide interests and influence. His studies on Gibraltar, published by the Geological Society of London in 1846, were the first to attempt a tectonic interpretation of the Rock's geological history, and to record local evidence for Quaternary sea level change.

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NERSESSIAN, VREJ. "Two Armenian manuscripts in the Library of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. First Manuscript." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 27, no. 3 (May 15, 2017): 341–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1356186317000153.

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Morus, Iwan Rhys. "Manufacturing nature: science, technology and Victorian consumer culture." British Journal for the History of Science 29, no. 4 (December 1996): 403–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007087400034725.

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The public place of science and technology in Britain underwent a dramatic change during the first half of the nineteenth century. At the end of the eighteenth century, natural philosophy was still on the whole the province of a relatively small group ofaficionados. London possessed only one institution devoted to the pursuit of natural knowledge: the Royal Society. The Royal Society also published what was virtually the only journal dealing exclusively with scientific affairs: thePhilosophical Transactions. By 1851, when the Great Exhibition opened its doors in Hyde Park to an audience of spectators that could be counted in the millions, the pursuit of science as a national need, its relationship to industrial progress were acceptable, if not uncontested facts for many commentators.

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Netton, Ian Richard. "Islamic Fundamentalism. Edited by R. M. Burrell. (Royal Asiatic Society Seminar Papers No. i.) pp. 86. London, The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1989. £7.95." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 1, no. 1 (April 1991): 122–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1356186300000171.

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authors, Various. "Book reviews." Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 58, no. 1 (January 22, 2004): 101–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2003.0230.

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The greate invention of algebra: Thomas Harriot's treatise on equations , by Jacqueline A. Stedall, reviewed by J. Gray. Collected works on Benjamin Roberts and Charles Hutton , by W. Johnson, reviewed by A. McConnell. The man who changed everything—the life of James Clerk Maxwell , by Basil Mahon, reviewed by B. Pippard. 'The common purposes of life': science and society at the Royal Institution of Great Britain , ed. Frank A. J. L. James, reviewed by J. S. Rowlinson.

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&NA;. "The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain has expressed concern over the availability of a placebo pill for children,." Inpharma Weekly &NA;, no. 1644 (June 2008): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.2165/00128413-200816440-00005.

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Bond, Ashley, and Philip J. Smith. "British Society of Gastroenterology: diagnosis and management of acute lower gastrointestinal bleeding." Frontline Gastroenterology 10, no. 4 (April 29, 2019): 417–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/flgastro-2019-101220.

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New guidelines have been produced through collaborative work between the British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG), the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland, the British Society of Interventional Radiology, the Royal College of Radiologists, National Health Service Blood and Transplants and patient representatives. This is the first UK national guidance for lower gastrointestinal bleeding (LGIB). The focus is the in-hospital management of adult patients presenting with acute LGIB. LGIB refers to patients presenting with bright or dark red blood per rectum, clots per rectum or blood mixed with stool. We provide a commentary and overview of the key features, with a particular focus on risk assessment, management, investigations, and radiological and endoscopic intervention.

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King, Mary. "Innovative new vascular programme combines surgery and radiology." Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 90, no. 2 (February 1, 2008): 53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1308/147363508x276440.

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2008 looks set to be a year of major challenges for vascular surgery. Vascular surgeons could soon be training alongside other medical professionals including radiologists if a new curriculum and training programme, devised by the Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland, is accepted by the royal colleges and the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board. The programme will combine surgical experience with the interventional radiology needed to carry out endovascular procedures and aims to meet the increased demands of aneurysm screening.

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Røllum-Larsen, Claus. "J.S. Bach og Danmark. En studie i den danske præsentation og musikfaglige behandling af Bachs værker indtil 1950." Fund og Forskning i Det Kongelige Biblioteks Samlinger 54 (March 3, 2015): 305. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/fof.v54i0.118887.

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Claus Røllum-Larsen: J.S. Bach and Denmark The dissemination and pursuit of Bach’s music in the first decades of the 1800s was characterized by the circle surrounding Peter Grønland, not least C.E.F. Weyse. The dissemination of Bach’s printed works seems to increase around the year 1800, but does not reach a high level until 1850. During the 19th century, there were strongly committed performers, who scheduled Bach’s music: the earliest was Hans Matthison-Hansen (organ works), later — from 1875 — Niels W. Gade (including The St. Matthew Passion), Gottfred Matthison-Hansen (organ works) and Frederik Rung (The St. John Passion and Mass in B minor). Then the Cæcilia Society safeguarded Bach’s greater chorale works all the way up to its discontinuation in 1934, whereupon the Symphony Orchestra of the Danish State Broadcasting Service and the Copenhagen Royal Chapel Choir took over. With the Bach Society, Niels Otto Raasted displayed great activity with regards to exposing Bach’s music in many genres, and in this context presented a number of prominent musicians with backgrounds in the milieu of practicing historical performances in Berlin. From the beginning of the 1930s, Finn Viderø was also heavily engaged in Bach’s music, particularly from the perspective of performance practice. By end of the Second World War, the Bach Society came to an end, while Wöldike together with the Copenhagen Royal Chapel Choir and various orchestras maintained extensive concert activity with Bach’s works. The commemoration in 1950, over which Mogens Wöldike presided, cemented the central position of the Copenhagen Royal Chapel Choir and Wöldike in the dissemination of Bach. The historically- and scientifically-founded approach to the music and the performance of it by these musicians and the music teacher Gunnar Heerup had thereby replaced a more subjective cultivation of Bach, and based on this had established an objective, critical approach to the handling of Bach’s music. This development has not changed the assessment of Bach as a composer; his extraordinary endeavour and “by virtue of Bach’s genius, Bach’s [cantatas and passions] … has become something that is unparalleled anywhere else in the world.” (J.P. Larsen).

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Jupp, Peter C. "The 125th anniversary of the Cremation Society of Great Britain and 'Cremation and the environment': The 125th Anniversary of the Royal Dutch Cremation Society." Mortality 4, no. 3 (January 1999): 333–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/713685984.

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Peck, L. V. "Uncovering the Arundel Library at the Royal Society: changing meanings of science and the fate of the Norfolk donation." Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 52, no. 1 (January 22, 1998): 3–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.1998.0031.

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Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, was the most important collector in early 17th Century Britain. Much attention has been paid to his collections of painting and sculpture, his patronage of painters such as Rubens and Van Dyck and architects such as Inigo Jones, and his search through Greece and Turkey for antiquities. Little, however, has been written on the Arundel Library, which was equally famous. The cause is not hard to find: the library has been dispersed whereas the marbles and antiquities have found a home at Oxford, the manuscripts at the British Library and the College of Arms, and the paintings and sculpture remain identifiable whether at Arundel Castle or in British, continental or American museums. Yet the Arundel Library is of great significance: to the history of book–collecting by the great bibliophiles Willibald Pirckheimer and Arundel himself; to the study of the reading practices and libraries of members of the Howard family, possibly including Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, and, certainly, his son, Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton; and, more generally, to the history of the book in the Renaissance and early modern Europe and the concomitant study of communities of readers.

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Curtis, Tom. "Biofilms in the Aquatic Environment, C.W. Keevil, A. Godfree, D. Holt, C. Dow (Eds.), Cambridge, Royal Society of Chemistry, 1999. Special Publication (Royal Society of Chemistry (Great Britain)). No. 242. ISBN: 0854047581." Urban Water 3, no. 1-2 (March 2001): 125. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1462-0758(01)00005-x.

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Bearman, Peter. "Special Issue of The Aeronautical Journal, marking the 150th Anniversary of the Founding of the Royal Aeronautical Society." Aeronautical Journal 120, no. 1223 (January 2016): 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/aer.2015.1.

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This special issue is one of a number of activities taking place this year to celebrate the founding of the Royal Aeronautical Society in 1866. The decision to form the Society was taken on 12 January 1866 at a meeting of distinguished people held in London and chaired by the Duke of Argyll. One of those present, James Glaisher, addressed the gathering and it is interesting to revisit an extract from his statement: “The first application of the balloon as a means of ascending into the upper regions of the atmosphere has been almost within the recollection of men now living but with the exception of some of the early experimenters it has scarcely occupied the attention of scientific men, nor has the subject of aeronautics been properly recognised as a distinct branch of science. . .”. The meeting resolved “that it is desirable to form a Society for the purpose of increasing by experiments our knowledge of Aeronautics and for other purposes incidental thereto and that a Society be now formed under the title of the ‘Aeronautical Society of Great Britain’ to be supported by annual subscriptions and donations.”

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Blouet, Olwyn M. "Bryan Edwards, F.R.S., 1743-1800." Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 54, no. 2 (May 22, 2000): 215–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2000.0108.

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Bryan Edwards was a Jamaican planter and politician who published a well–respected History of the West Indies in 1793. He articulated the planter view concerning the value of the West Indian colonies to Great Britain, and opposed the abolition of the slave trade. Edwards disputed European scientific speculation that the ‘New World’ environment retarded nature, although his scientific interests have largely gone unnoticed. Elected a Fellow of The Royal Society in 1794, he became a Member of Parliament in 1796, and wrote a History of Haiti in the following year. As Secretary of the African Association, Edwards edited the African travel journals of Mungo Park.

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Rogers, J. M. "Muhammad Juki's Shahnamah of Firdausi. By Barbara Brend. pp. 214. London, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Philip Wilson, 2010." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland 25, no. 2 (November 11, 2014): 360–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1356186314000169.

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SHARPE, SUSAN. "THE STATUTORY COMMITTEE OF THE ROYAL PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN — THE FUNCTION OF A DISCIPLINARY BODY IN MAINTENANCE OF PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS." Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance 1, no. 1 (January 1992): 103–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/eb024757.

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"Abstracts from the Twenty-Fourth Meeting of the Pancreatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland at the Royal College of Physicians, London, UK." International Journal of Gastrointestinal Cancer 27, no. 3 (2000): 259–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1385/ijgc:27:3:259.

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Khan, B. Zorina. "Inventing Prizes: A Historical Perspective on Innovation Awards and Technology Policy." Business History Review 89, no. 4 (2015): 631–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007680515001014.

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Prizes for innovations are currently experiencing a renaissance, following their marked decline during the nineteenth century. Debates about such incentive mechanisms tend to employ canonical historical anecdotes to motivate and support the analysis and policy proposals. Daguerre's “patent buyout,” the Longitude Prize, inducement prizes for butter substitutes and billiard balls, the activities of the Royal Society of Arts and other “encouragement” institutions—all comprise potentially misleading case studies. The article surveys and summarizes extensive empirical research using samples drawn from Britain, France, and the United States, including “great inventors” and their ordinary counterparts, and prizes at industrial exhibitions. The results suggest that administered systems of rewards to innovators suffered from a number of disadvantages in design and practice, which might be inherent to their nonmarket orientation.

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Oakland, Kathryn, Georgina Chadwick, James E. East, Richard Guy, Adam Humphries, Vipul Jairath, Simon McPherson, et al. "Diagnosis and management of acute lower gastrointestinal bleeding: guidelines from the British Society of Gastroenterology." Gut 68, no. 5 (February 12, 2019): 776–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/gutjnl-2018-317807.

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This is the first UK national guideline to concentrate on acute lower gastrointestinal bleeding (LGIB) and has been commissioned by the Clinical Services and Standards Committee of the British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG). The Guidelines Development Group consisted of representatives from the BSG Endoscopy Committee, the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland, the British Society of Interventional Radiology, the Royal College of Radiologists, NHS Blood and Transplant and a patient representative. A systematic search of the literature was undertaken and the quality of evidence and grading of recommendations appraised according to the GRADE(Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation) methodology. These guidelines focus on the diagnosis and management of acute LGIB in adults, including methods of risk assessment and interventions to diagnose and treat bleeding (colonoscopy, computed tomography, mesenteric angiography, endoscopic therapy, embolisation and surgery). Recommendations are included on the management of patients who develop LGIB while receiving anticoagulants (including direct oral anticoagulants) or antiplatelet drugs. The appropriate use of blood transfusion is also discussed, including haemoglobin triggers and targets.

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ROSE, EDWIN D. "PUBLISHING NATURE IN THE AGE OF REVOLUTIONS: JOSEPH BANKS, GEORG FORSTER, AND THE PLANTS OF THE PACIFIC." Historical Journal 63, no. 5 (April 14, 2020): 1132–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x20000011.

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AbstractThe construction and distribution of books containing large copperplate images was of great importance to practitioners of natural history during the eighteenth century. This article examines the case of the botanist and president of the Royal Society Sir Joseph Banks (1743–1820), who attempted to publish a series of images based on the botanical illustrations produced by Georg Forster (1754–94) on Cook's second voyage of exploration (1772–5) during the 1790s. The analysis reveals how the French Revolution influenced approaches to constructing and distributing works of natural history in Britain, moving beyond commercial studies of book production to show how Banks's political agenda shaped the taxonomic content and distribution of this publication. Matters were complicated by Forster's association with radical politics and the revolutionary ideologies attached to materials collected in the Pacific by the 1790s. Banks's response to the Revolution influenced the distribution of this great work, showing how British loyalist agendas interacted with scientific practice and shaped the diffusion of natural knowledge in the revolutionary age.

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Leventhal, F. M. "“A Tonic to the Nation”: The Festival of Britain, 1951." Albion 27, no. 3 (1995): 445–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4051737.

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No event of the post-Second World War decade in Britain is recalled as affectionately or enveloped in such an aura of nostalgia as the Festival of Britain, a five-month series of cultural events and exhibits, with its centerpiece at the South Bank in London. But the Festival dear to the recollections of those growing up during and after the war diverged sharply from the original conception of its progenitors.In 1943 the Royal Society of the Arts, partly responsible for the Great Exhibition of 1851, suggested to the government that an international exhibition along similar lines be staged in 1951 to commemorate the earlier event. To propose a celebratory occasion in 1943 was an act of faith that the war would not only end successfully, but that Britain would have recovered sufficiently by 1951 to warrant such a demonstration. In September 1945, with the war over and Labour in power, Gerald Barry, the editor of the News Chronicle, addressed an open letter to Stafford Cripps, then President of the Board of Trade, advocating a trade and cultural exhibition in London as a way of commemorating the centenary of the Crystal Palace. Such an exhibition would advertise British products and display British prowess in design and craftsmanship. He favored a site in the center of London, such as Hyde Park or Battersea, either of which would provide ample space for such an exhibition. What prompted these suggestions was the need to provide practical help to British commerce at a time when it was clearly under pressure shifting from wartime controls to peacetime competition.

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Winterborn, RJ, and CRR Corbett. "Treatment of Varicose Veins: The Present and the Future – A Questionnaire Survey." Annals of The Royal College of Surgeons of England 90, no. 7 (October 2008): 561–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1308/003588408x318228.

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INTRODUCTION The treatment options for varicose veins have increased over the last few years. Despite alack of randomised trials comparing the various modalities, many surgeons are changing their practice. The aim of this study was to assess the current practice of surgeons in Great Britain and Ireland. MATERIALS AND METHODS A postal questionnaire survey was sent to surgical members of the Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland and the Venous Forum of The Royal Society of Medicine. Of 561 questionnaires sent, 349 were returned completed (62%). RESULTS The types of varicose vein treatments offered by each surgeon varied widely in both NHS and private practice. The vast majority (96%) offered conventional surgery (CS) on the NHS. Foam sclerotherapy (FS) endovenous laser (EVL) and radiofrequency ablation (RF) were more likely to be offered in private practice than in NHS practice. Overall, 38% of respondents for NHS practice and 45% of respondents for private practice offered two or more modalities. Of the respondents who were not yet performing FS, EVL, or RF, 19% were considering or had undertaken training in FS, 26% in EVL and 9% in RF. When asked to consider future practice, 70% surgeons felt that surgery would remain the most commonly used treatment. This was followed by FS (17%), EVL (11%) and RF (2%). CONCLUSIONS Over one-third of respondents are now offering more than one treatment modality for the treatment of varicose veins. Whilst there is movement towards endovascular treatments, the problem of cost has yet to be solved. At present, surgery remains the most popular modality in both the NHS and private practice; however, improved outcomes and patient preference may lead to a change in practice.

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Hearn, A. G. "Electronic Publishing: Now and the Future." Highlights of Astronomy 11, no. 1 (1998): 497–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1539299600021870.

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Electronic publishing of journals has already arrived, and is established. The Astrophysical Journal and Letters, Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplements and New Astronomy have been publishing a parallel electronic edition since the beginning of 1997. Astronomy and Astrophysics will follow in 1998, and the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society are being developed. The American Astronomical Society has been the leader in developing electronic publishing in astrophysics. They have led not only by being first, but also by the high standards of their electronic publication.One of the stories that school children in Great Britain learn at an early age is about King Canute II. Canute was a Danish king who ruled part of what is now Great Britain from 1016 to 1035. He is famous because he sat bythe sea as the tide was coming in and commanded the tide to go back. It didnot.Electronic publication is going to bring many changes to the way research is done and published. There are obvious advantages and disadvantages. There are certainly problems which we have not yet realized. The purpose of this Joint Discussion is to stimulate a discussion of what the international astrophysical community would like from electronic publishing. Please do not say that you want electronic publishing to go away, because then you will be behaving like King Canute. But the publishers of journals and the bodies responsible for maintaining the quality of publication are feeling their way into completely new territory. To exploit electronic publishing to the full, and to minimize the disadvantages, discussion in the community is needed.Electronic publishing will bring great connectivity into journals. While looking at one paper, a click on the mouse will immediately connect with another paper published in another journal. Large tables, theoretical or observational, will be read in the same way from databases. An electronic publication will longer be static. It can be modified to refer to papers published later, it can contain movies or computer programs that can be executed online.

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Corbett, C. R. R. "Joint Symposium of the Venous Forum of the Royal Society of Medicine, with the Vascular Surgical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 7 November 2001, and Venous Papers on 8 November 2001." Phlebology: The Journal of Venous Disease 17, no. 1 (March 2002): 36–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/026835550201700109.

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Corbett, C. R. R. "Joint symposium of the venous forum of the royal society of medicine, with the vascular surgical society of great britain and ireland, 7 november 2001, and venous papers on 8 november 2001." Phlebology 17, no. 1 (September 2002): 36–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02667962.

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Lister, John Rodney. "BBC Proms 2013: Gerald Barry, Peter Eötvös, Nishat Kahn, Frederic Rzewski and Mark Anthony Turnage." Tempo 68, no. 267 (January 2014): 55–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040298213001356.

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Mark Anthony Turnage's Frieze – performed by the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, conducted by Vasily Petrenko, on 11 August – and Nashit Kahn's The Gate of the Moon, a concerto for sitar and orchestra – performed by Kahn himself with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conducted by David Atherton on 12 August – both raise the question of how, in a new piece, one can meaningfully reference other music. Turnage's work was commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society to celebrate the organisation's bicentennial and to share a programme as their most famous and, probably, greatest commission, the Beethoven Ninth Symphony; this shorter work, which is clearly modelled on the Beethoven in its general layout, is a sort of gloss in Turnage's own language on the older one. Kahn's concerto brings together an orchestra of western instruments and a single Indian one and aims at joining their indigenous musical languages in a meaningful way.

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Vasudev, Akshya, and Richard Harrison. "Prescribing safely in elderly psychiatric wards: survey of possible drug interactions." Psychiatric Bulletin 32, no. 11 (November 2008): 417–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.bp.107.019141.

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Aims and MethodA cross-sectional survey of patient drug prescriptions on two elderly psychiatric wards was carried out to estimate the potential of drug–drug interactions. Two standardised databases, British National Formulary (BNF; British Medical Association & Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, 2007) and Upto Date (www.uptodate.com/), were employed.ResultsA majority (96%) of drug prescriptions in our study could potentially cause drug–drug interactions. Most patients were on multiple drugs (on average eight drugs per patient). There was poor concordance between the two databases: BNF picked up fewer cases of potential drug–drug interactions than Upto Date (43 v. 152 instances) and they also estimated the potential for hazardousness differently.Clinical ImplicationsPolypharmacy is common in elderly psychiatric patients and this increases the possibility of a drug–drug interaction. Estimating the risk of interactions depends on a sound knowledge in therapeutics and/or referring to a standardised source of information. the results of this study question the concordance of two well-referenced databases.

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Rose, Edwin D. "From the South Seas to Soho Square: Joseph Banks's Library, collection and Kingdom of natural history." Notes and Records: the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science 73, no. 4 (June 5, 2019): 499–526. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2018.0059.

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The library and herbarium of Joseph Banks was one of the most prominent natural history collections of late eighteenth-century Britain. The examination of the working practices used in Banks's library, which was based at 32 Soho Square from 1777, reveals the activities of the numerous individuals who worked for Banks and on his collections from the early 1770s until 1820. Banks's librarians and their assistants used a range of paper technologies to classify and catalogue the vast numbers of new botanical species being discovered at this time. These practices of managing information changed as the decades progressed, reflecting the changes to systems of classification and the different research projects of Banks and his natural history staff. Banks's great wealth and powerful position as President of the Royal Society gave him the means to build and use this rigorously organized collection and library to influence a range of other private and institutional collections for almost 50 years.

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Bağırlar, Belgin. "Racism in the 21st Century: Debbie Tucker Green’s Eye for Ear." European Journal of Behavioral Sciences 3, no. 3 (December 30, 2020): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.33422/ejbs.v3i3.483.

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Does equality exist in the 21st century, or, are minorities still forced to fight for equality? In nineteenth century, Britain, racism was blatant in all spheres of cultural, social, and economic life to the point that it crossed over into literature and theatre. In 1978, UNESCO adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Forty years have since passed, but has it made any difference? Contemporary British playwright Debbie Tucker Green’s Eye for Ear (2018), staged at the Royal Court Theatre, reminds us that racism and inequality is still a key social-political issue. This three-act, avant-garde, colloquial play depicts how both African-Americans as well as Black British people still live with racism today. It also highlights racism’s linguistic and legal past. Tucker Green particularly focuses on the violent aspect of that racism through the lens of different characters: an academic, a black student, a black boy, and black parents. The play concludes with crushed hope, for it deduces that Caucasians both in the United States and in Great Britain still dominate practically every facet of society. This study will examine Green’s Ear for Eye, racial discrimination in the 21st century, and how Tucker Green projects her views upon her work through the theory of race and racism.

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Binenko, V. I. "Contribution of Academician K.Ya. Kondratyev in the development of meteorology and ecology (to the 100th anniversary)." HYDROMETEOROLOGY AND ECOLOGY. PROCEEDINGS OF THE RUSSIAN STATE HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, no. 59 (2020): 137–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.33933/2074-2762-2020-59-137-149.

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In connection with the centenary of K.Ya. Kondratyev, the academician of the USSR and RAS, the article examines the scientific path of the outstanding geophysicist, the man who, being a student of the Physics Department of LSU, became an ordinary participant in the second world war and after severe injuries, finished his studies, worked his way from the assistant to the University rector, becoming a scientist whose works were highly appreciated in the world scientific community and are still in demand today. K.Ya. Kondratyev was one of the first to use remote sensing methods of the Earth and atmosphere from manned spaceships, his contribution to the implementation of both national and international research complex experiments, to the consideration of the problems of modern climate change, global ecology and the development of the strategy of global EcoDynamics being great. K.Ya Kondratyev was awarded the State prize of the USSR, was a co-author of scientific discovery "the Phenomenon of vertically-ray structures of day radiation of the upper atmosphere of the Earth”, listed in the State register of discoveries of the USSR under No. 106 with priority from May 19, 1971, was a winner of the Honorary award and was awarded the Grand gold medal of the World Meteorological Organization. He was awarded the Simons Gold medal of the Royal meteorological society of Great Britain. K.Ya Kondratyev was elected an Honorary member of the American Meteorological Society (USA), Royal Meteorological Society (UK), Academy of Natural Sciences "Leopoldina" (Germany), foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (USA), member of the International Academy of Astronautics, an honorary doctor of the universities of Lille (France, Budapest (Hungary), Athens (Greece). For many years he has an editor of the "Earth Research from Space" journal, a member of the editorial boards of "Optics of atmosphere and ocean" and "Izvestiya of the Russian geographical society" journals, a member of the editorial boards of foreign journals of "Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics" (Austria), "Idojaras" (Hungary), "II Nuovo Cimento C", "Italy", "Atmosfera" (Mexico), "Energy and Environment" (UK). His scientific and literary heritage consists of 120 monographs and more than 1,500 scientific articles published in the leading scientific journals in Russia and abroad

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Hognason, Kormakur, and Kenneth G. Swan. "Niels Thorkild Rovsing: The Surgeon behind the Sign." American Surgeon 80, no. 12 (December 2014): 1201–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000313481408001220.

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Niels Thorkild Rovsing (1862 to 1927) was a Danish surgeon. His eponyms include the Rovsing sign of acute appendicitis, the Rovsing syndrome (abdominal pain in a horseshoe kidney), the Rovsing operation I (for polycystic kidney), and the Rovsing operation II (to separate a fused “horseshoe” kidney). He received his M.D. degree in 1885 and his Ph.D. in 1889 from Copenhagen University. Rovsing practiced surgery from 1892 to 1902 at the Queen Louise Children's Hospital and the Red Cross Hospital, both located in Copenhagen. He became Professor of Surgery in 1899 and Director of Surgery at the Royal Frederiks Hospital in 1904. Rovsing earned international recognition for his innovative urological surgery. Together with his colleague, Eilert A. Tscherning, Rovsing founded the Danish Surgical Society (Dansk Kirurgisk Selskap) in 1908. His advocacy for antisepsis and Listerism advanced his notoriety and exemplified his medical leadership. His clarion call for a modern hospital led to the construction of the Copenhagen University Hospital (Rigshospitalet) that opened in 1910. Rovsing was an Honorary Member of the Edinburgh Medico-Chirurgical Society and the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland. Rovsing served briefly as Denmark's Minister of Education in 1920. He died in 1927 from cardiac failure and laryngeal cancer.

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Lamb, Christopher Andrew, Nicholas A. Kennedy, Tim Raine, Philip Anthony Hendy, Philip J. Smith, Jimmy K. Limdi, Bu’Hussain Hayee, et al. "British Society of Gastroenterology consensus guidelines on the management of inflammatory bowel disease in adults." Gut 68, Suppl 3 (September 27, 2019): s1—s106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/gutjnl-2019-318484.

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Ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease are the principal forms of inflammatory bowel disease. Both represent chronic inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract, which displays heterogeneity in inflammatory and symptomatic burden between patients and within individuals over time. Optimal management relies on understanding and tailoring evidence-based interventions by clinicians in partnership with patients. This guideline for management of inflammatory bowel disease in adults over 16 years of age was developed by Stakeholders representing UK physicians (British Society of Gastroenterology), surgeons (Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland), specialist nurses (Royal College of Nursing), paediatricians (British Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition), dietitians (British Dietetic Association), radiologists (British Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology), general practitioners (Primary Care Society for Gastroenterology) and patients (Crohn’s and Colitis UK). A systematic review of 88 247 publications and a Delphi consensus process involving 81 multidisciplinary clinicians and patients was undertaken to develop 168 evidence- and expert opinion-based recommendations for pharmacological, non-pharmacological and surgical interventions, as well as optimal service delivery in the management of both ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. Comprehensive up-to-date guidance is provided regarding indications for, initiation and monitoring of immunosuppressive therapies, nutrition interventions, pre-, peri- and postoperative management, as well as structure and function of the multidisciplinary team and integration between primary and secondary care. Twenty research priorities to inform future clinical management are presented, alongside objective measurement of priority importance, determined by 2379 electronic survey responses from individuals living with ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease, including patients, their families and friends.

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RHODES, J. "Colorectal cancer screening in the UK: Joint Position Statement by the British Society of Gastroenterology, the Royal College of Physicians, and the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland." Gut 46, no. 6 (June 1, 2000): 746–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/gut.46.6.746.

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EDDY, MATTHEW. "FRANK A.J.L. JAMES, 'The Common Purposes of Life'. Science and society at the Royal Institution of Great Britain. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002. XIV+456 pp., ill., ISBN 0-7546-0960-X." Nuncius 21, no. 2 (January 1, 2006): 437–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/221058706x01170.

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Berridge, Virginia. "S. W. F. Holloway, Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain 1841–1991: a political and social history, London, The Pharmaceutical Press, 1991, pp. xvii, 440, illus., £35.00 (0-85369-244-0)." Medical History 37, no. 1 (January 1993): 117–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0025727300058002.

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Cherry, Bridget. "London’s Public Events and Ceremonies: an Overview Through Three Centuries." Architectural History 56 (2013): 1–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0066622x00002434.

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A revised and abridged record of the Annual Lecture of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, given at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, on 12 November 2012Two exceptional events in London in 2012, the queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the Olympics, provoked questions about the origins and legacy of major public events of the past. This article explores the impact on the fabric of London since the eighteenth century of occasional planned spectacles through discussion of two main types of event, namely the procession along a predetermined route and occasions requiring a large organized space.George, Elector of Hanover, succeeded to the throne as George I on 1 August 1714. The proclamation of a new monarch took place at a series of traditional sites. The Heralds started at the king’s residence, St James’s Palace, and proceeded to Charing Cross, where the statue of Charles I had replaced the medieval Eleanor cross destroyed in the Civil War. The third site, Temple Bar, marked the boundary of the City Liberties. Within the City the proclamation was repeated at St Mary le Bow and at the Royal Exchange — recent post-Fire buildings, but iconic sites — marking the significance of the Church and the power centre of the City merchants.

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Rosińska, Agnieszka, Hanna Dorna, Dorota Szopińska, and Katarzyna Seidler-Łożykowska. "Experimental Paper. The effect of colour grading of milk thistle (Silybum marianum (L.) Gaertn.) seeds on their quality for sowing." Herba Polonica 63, no. 1 (March 1, 2017): 7–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/hepo-2017-0001.

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Summary Introduction: Milk thistle (Silybum marianum (L.) Gaertn.) is a medicinal plant belonging to Asteraceae family. Extract from milk thistle achenes (termed in practice as seeds) contains sylimarin, which protects liver cells against inorganic and organic toxic compounds. Objective: The aim of the research was to evaluate the effect of colour grading on the quality of milk thistle seeds. Methods: Seeds were graded manually by colour according to the Royal Horticultural Society Colour Chart, issued in Great Britain. In three samples two fractions of seeds were separated: beige and brown, whereas seeds of the fourth sample were graded into three fractions: yellow, beige and brown. The 1000-seed weight and germination of graded and non-graded seeds were evaluated. Infestation of graded seeds with fungi was assessed. Results: Brown seeds had a higher 1000-seed weight than beige or yellow ones. Germination at the final count of beige seeds did not differ as compared to that of brown seeds or was even better. Milk thistle seeds were infested with numerous fungi, however Alternaria alternata and Ulocladium consortiale predominated. Conclusions: Less mature beige seeds can be used as sowing material because their germination at the final count did not differ as compared to that of fully mature brown seeds or was even better. Infestation of these seeds with some of the fungi was lower than brown seeds.

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Crellin, J. K. "S. W. F. Holloway. Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, 1841-1991: A Political and Social History. London: The Pharmaceutical Press; distributed by Rittenhouse Book Distributors, King of Prussia, Penn. 1991. Pp. xv, 440. £35.00." Albion 25, no. 2 (1993): 350–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4051504.

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Smith, Robert W. "Frank A. J. L. James, ed. “The Common Purposes of Life”: Science and Society at the Royal Institution of Great Britain. Burlington, Vt: Ashgate Publishing. 2002. Pp. xvi, 456. $99.95. ISBN 0-7546-0960-X." Albion 36, no. 3 (2004): 547–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4054410.

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