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1946; Royal Society; Volume: 4; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1098/rsnr.1946.0030

1743-0178

R. Bruce Robinson,

Philosophy and History of Science

The Royal Society of London sends most cordial greetings to the Naturforschende Gesellschaft in Zürich on the completion of two centuries of activity which has contributed in rich measure to the advancement of knowledge in many fields of scientific research. It is with pride that the Royal Society recalls that, when men of science met together to discuss the formation of a scientific society in Switzerland, they were encouraged in their endeavours by colleagues in Britain. We remember that of the first three Foreign Secretaries of the Royal Society, two were of Swiss nationality, namely, Philip Henry Zollman and Johann Gaspar Scheuchzer; and upon them lay the task of creating the mechanism whereby the Royal Society of London has maintained intimate relationship with scientific endeavour in other lands. Many have been the contacts between the Royal Society and men of science in Switzerland. Johann von Muralt was among the earliest of the foreign contributors to the Philosophical Transactions . The de Duilliers were correspondents of Sir Isaac Newton. The brothers Bernouilli were numbered among our Foreign Members; so were Albrecht von Haller, Abraham Trembley, Charles Bonnet, Leonhard Euler, Jean André De Luc, Horace-Bénédict de Saussure, Augustin Pyrame de Candolle, Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz and Rudolph Albert von Kölliker.