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Public lecture by Professor Michael Hunter, Birkbeck

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Public lecture by Professor Michael Hunter, Birkbeck

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Speaker: Professor Michael Hunter, Birkbeck

 

Within a few years of its foundation, the Royal Society acquired a crucial institutional role in organising and arbitrating scientific research. Yet what has often been overlooked is the element of evolution - even of trial and error - in the Society's development in its earliest years. This talk will explore the sometimes painful process by which the Society's founders discovered what functions this novel body could most usefully serve.