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Biographical Resource: Raymond and Beverly Sackler Archive Resource (The Royal Society: London, UK)

• Date:   Thu, 8 Mar 2001 07:21:16 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time)
• To:   histneur-l@library.ucla.edu
• From:   Russell A. Johnson <rjohnson@library.ucla.edu>
• Subject:   Biographical Resource: Raymond and Beverly Sackler Archive Resource (The Royal Society: London, UK)
• Message-ID:   SIMEON.10103080716.B@bio-s-his008.library.ucla.edu

Forwarded to HISTNEUR-L from MERSENNE via HOPOS-L.

You can go to the Sackler Archive Resource directly at:
http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/library/rbsar.htm

This very promising and already valuable database contains:

- Obituaries and Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 
1830-2000 [actually, this is an index to the obits and memoirs; 
individual documents may be ordered and purchased, or you can use the 
citation at your own library or one which has runs of the cited serial 
publications]

- List of fellows of the Royal Society 1660-2000 [not just a list but 
also exact (including month and day) birth and death dates]

Take some time to explore the other Royal Society Library links in 
the "Menu" at the right side of the screen, too!

Russell Johnson



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Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 19:08:42 -0600
From: "Gale, George" 
Subject: FW: Sackler Archive Resource
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From: "Richardson, Gudrun" 
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The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Archive Resource

The Sackler Archive Resource is developed by the Royal Society Library and
generously funded by the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Trust.  The Resource is
a biographical database of Fellows of the Royal Society from its inception
in 1660 to the present day (excluding the current Fellowship) and 
includes some 8,000 figures from the history of science.  Names such as 
Sir Christopher Wren (FRS 1663), Sir Humphry Davy (FRS 1803) and 
Charles Darwin (FRS 1839) appear alongside their contemporaries who 
have been all but lost to history.  The aim of the five-year project is 
to bring together the diverse printed sources relating to the history 
of the Fellowship into a fully searchable database.  Election 
certificates are being transcribed, allowing users to search for 
research interests and also to identify links between individual 
scientists through candidates' proposers.  Other biographical elements 
include education, career details and family relationships; other 
information includes references to obituaries of Fellows published by 
the Royal Society.  The next aim of the project is to scan portraits of 
Fellows and attach these to the biographical records.

The Resource is now available via the Royal Society's website:

http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/library/index.html

under the link "Online catalogues".  Also available is the library 
catalogue of the Royal Society, a collection of history of science and 
science policy, built around the Royal Society's work and Fellows.

Work on the Sackler Archive Resource is ongoing and additional information
would be most welcome.  Comments regarding either the Resource or 
the library catalogue can be sent to:    sackler@royalsoc.ac.uk


Gudrun Richardson (Miss)
Researcher (Raymond and Beverly Sackler Archive Resource)

tel + 44 (0) 20 7451 2602
fax + 44 (0) 20 7930 2170
email gudrun.richardson@royalsoc.ac.uk

Registered Charity No 207043
The Royal Society - promoting excellence in science
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