The Yearbook of the Scientific and Learned Societies of Great Britain and Ireland

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C.Griffin, 1915 - Great Britain
 

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Page 29 - Colonies and the Board of Trade, and with the approval of the Secretary of State for India, the management of the Imperial Institute was transferred to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, subject to the responsibility of the Board of Trade under the Act of 1902. A Committee of Management of three members, one nominated by each of the three Government Departments chiefly concerned, has been appointed, and at present consists of Mr.
Page 255 - Society has for many years been doing with admirable results for Greece. Its scope embraces the history, art, and archaeology of Rome, Italy, and the Roman Empire, down to about AD 700. Mediaeval and Renaissance Italy have been left to other bodies. In connection with the Hellenic Society, the Roman Society maintains at 19 Bloomsbury...
Page 29 - African Tropical Service Course. — A course of instruction in certain specified subjects is now given at the Imperial Institute to candidates selected by the Colonial Office for administrative appointments in East and West Africa. Instruction in the subject of tropical cultivation and products in this course is given by members of the Staff of the Imperial Institute. Library and Reading- Rooms.
Page 255 - Objects. — The Society has been formed to effect for the history, art, and archaeology of Rome what the Hellenic Society has for many years been doing with admirable results for Greece. Its scope embraces the history, art, and archaeology of Rome, Italy, and the Roman Empire, down to about AD 700.
Page 27 - Objects. — To extend a knowledge of India in England, and an interest in the people of that country. To co-operate with all efforts made for advancing education and social reform in India, and to promote friendly intercourse between English people and the people of India.
Page 148 - To collect and collate information as to areas of land in the United Kingdom which retain their primitive conditions and contain rare and ' local species liable to extinction owing to building, drainage, and disafforestation, or in consequence of the cupidity of collectors.
Page 137 - An Introduction to the Study of Meteorites, with a List of the Meteorites represented in the Collection.
Page 71 - Diurnal range of Rain at the seven Observatories in connection with the Meteorological Office, 1871-90, price 2s.
Page 137 - Gallery. 1895, 8vo, 2d. An Introduction to the Study of Minerals, with a Guide to the Mineral Gallery of the British Museum...

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