Royal Society of Edinburgh

I heard Audubon deliver there some interesting discourses on the habits of North American birds, sneering somewhat unjustly at Warranty.

by the way a negro lived in edinburgh who had travelled with waterton and gained his livelihood by stuffing birds which he did excellently he gave me lessons for payment and i used often to sit with him for he was a very pleasant and intelligent man Dr. Leonard Horner also took me once to a meeting of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, where I saw Sir Walter Scott in the chair as President, and he apologized to the meeting as not feeling fitted for such a position.

I looked at him and the whole scene with some awe and reverence, and I think it was owing to this visit during my youth, and to my having attended the Royal Medical Society, that I felt the honor of being elected a few years ago an honorary member in both these societies, more than any other similar honor.

If I had been told at the time that I should one day have been thus honored, I declare that I should have thought it as ridiculous and improbable as if I had been told that I should be elected King of England.

contributing to widespread awareness of the secret machinations of secret societies in those days that has largely been lost in contemporary times.

So, among the English-speaking world, the Illuminati's operations were first widely exposed to the public in the 1797... 1797... book Proofs of Conspiracy Against All the Religions and Governments of Europe, carried on in the secret meetings of Freemasons, Illuminati, and Reading Societies by John Robinson, a university professor Freemason and the first general secretary to the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

So there's your book to get, Chris.

You know I'm talking to you.

Shandon spoke to the doctor about this phenomenon.

It confirms the curious observations of the whaler Scoresby, who laid it before the Royal Society of Edinburgh, of which I have the honour to be an honorary member.

You see that when it rains the waves are not very high, even under the influence of a violent wind, and when the weather is dry the sea is more agitated, even when there is less wind.

But how is this phenomenon accounted for? Very simply, it is not accounted for at all.

President Catherine Connolly is spending the second day of her official visit to Scotland in Glasgow as she continues a four-day programme aimed at strengthening ties between Ireland and Scotland.

The visit began yesterday when the President received an honorary fellowship from the Royal Society of Edinburgh where she highlighted the deep cultural, historical and linguistic links shared by both nations.

The trip will later take her to Coatbridge on the Isle of Skye where she'll visit Scotland's National Centre for Gaelic Language and Culture.

Speaking ahead of the visit, President Connolly said Ireland and Scotland are bound by centuries of friendship, culture and migration.

Sir Anton is an economist by training, and he was one of the UK's longest serving university leaders as the former principal and vice chancellor of the University of Glasgow.

And now he serves as the president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Scotland's National Academy.

Across those roles, he's worked at the intersection of higher education, public policy, economics and research, helping institutions navigate some of the most significant political, economic and technological changes of the past two decades.

But I know it's a debate that's still raging in the moment.

Yes, there's no shortage of debate these days.

And maybe actually that's a good transition to maybe ask you a little bit about the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

So maybe you could describe its purpose and what your role is in the society as well.

And he was responsible for, and this is the one that kind of blew me away.

the Royal Charter for the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh, which resulted in the formation of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1783.

So quite the CV, even before you get to this point, right? Well, it turns out that Professor Cullen experimented with a partial vacuum pump that contained something called diethyl ether, which is an organic compound.

It's an early anesthetic.

I heard Audubon deliver there some interesting discourses on the habits of North American birds, sneering somewhat unjustly at Warranty.

by the way a negro lived in edinburgh who had travelled with waterton and gained his livelihood by stuffing birds which he did excellently he gave me lessons for payment and i used often to sit with him for he was a very pleasant and intelligent man Dr. Leonard Horner also took me once to a meeting of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, where I saw Sir Walter Scott in the chair as president, and he apologized to the meeting as not feeling fitted for such a position.

I looked at him and the whole scene with some awe and reverence, and I think it was owing to this visit during my youth, and to my having attended the Royal Medical Society, that I felt the honor of being elected a few years ago an honorary member in both these societies, more than any other similar honor.

If I had been told at the time that I should one day have been thus honored, I declare that I should have thought it as ridiculous and improbable as if I had been told that I should be elected King of England.

I heard Audubon deliver there some interesting discourses on the habits of North American birds, sneering somewhat unjustly at Warranty.

by the way a negro lived in edinburgh who had travelled with waterton and gained his livelihood by stuffing birds which he did excellently he gave me lessons for payment and i used often to sit with him for he was a very pleasant and intelligent man Dr. Leonard Horner also took me once to a meeting of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, where I saw Sir Walter Scott in the chair as president, and he apologized to the meeting as not feeling fitted for such a position.

I looked at him and the whole scene with some awe and reverence, and I think it was owing to this visit during my youth, and to my having attended the Royal Medical Society, that I felt the honor of being elected a few years ago an honorary member in both these societies, more than any other similar honor.

If I had been told at the time that I should one day have been thus honored, I declare that I should have thought it as ridiculous and improbable as if I had been told that I should be elected King of England.

And before that, I have been a chair of a variety of other things, some, all charities really, but some in the education sector, some in the faith sector.

And also I've been interim chief exec of some organisations like the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Canega Trust Universities of Scotland.

And that follows a career teaching leadership at Ashish Business School for about 10, 15 years.

I'm still involved with that and also writing books.