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Address delivered by the President, Sir William Huggins, K. C. B., O. M., F. R. S., at the Anniversary Meeting on November 30th, 1904.
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY . Section A.\#151 ; Mathematical and Physical Sciences . Address delivered by the Preside , Sir William , K.C.B. , O.M. , F.P.S. , at the Anniversary Meeting -on November 30 th,1904 . Since the last Anniversary the Society has lost by death fourteen Fellows . The deceased Fellows are:\#...
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The boring of the Simplon Tunnel, and the distribution of temperature that was encountered.
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical and Physical Character
Francis Fox, M. Inst. C. E. |C. V. Boys, F. R. S.
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The Boring of the Simplon Tunnel , etc. 29* Hughes Medal . The Hughes Medal is awarded to Sir Joseph Wilson Swan , F.R.S. , for his invention of the incandescent electric lamp , and his other inventions and improvements in the practical applications of electricity . Not as directly included in the award , should be men...
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0950-1207
On a method of finding the conductivity for heat.
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical and Physical Character
Professor C. Niven, F. R. S.
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]\gt ; ; 34 Prof. C. Niven . On Method of [ Dec. 5 , On a Method of Finding the onductivity for Heat . By Professor C. NIVEN , ( Received December 5 , 1904 , \mdash ; Read January 26 , 1905 . ) INTRODUCTION . This paper contains an account of a method for finding the conductivity for heat , especially in bad conductors...
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0950-1207
Theory of the reflection of light near the polarising angle.
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical and Physical Character
Richard C. Maclaurin, M. A., LL. D.|Professor J. Larmor, Sec. R. S.
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On the relation between variations of atmospheric pressure in North-East Africa and the Nile flood.
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical and Physical Character
Captain H. G. Lyons|Sir W. E. Garstin, G. C. M. G.|Dr. W. N. Shaw, F. R. S.
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Meteorology
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66 On the Relation between Variations of Atmospheric Pressure in North-East Africa and the Nile Flood . By Captain H. G. Lyons , Director-General Survey Department of Egypt . ( Communicated by Dr. W. N. Shaw , F.R.S. , by permission of Sir W. E. Garstin , G.C.M.G. , Adviser , Public Works Ministry . Received December 1...
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0950-1207
On the radio-active minerals.
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The Hon. R. J. Strutt|Lord Rayleigh, O. M., F. R. S.
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rspa_1905_0007
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The rate of transmission of the Guatemala earthquake, April 19, 1902.
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R. D. Oldham.|Professor John Milne, F. R. S.
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rspa_1905_0008
0950-1207
A determination of the amounts of neon and helium in atmospheric air.
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Sir William Ramsay, K. C. B., F. R. S.
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rspa_1905_0009
0950-1207
A new radio-active element, which evolves thorium emanation. Preliminary communication.
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"Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical and Physi(...TRUNCATED)
O. Hahn, Ph. D.|Sir William Ramsay, K. C. B., F. R. S.
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0950-1207
On the spectrum of silicon; with a note on the spectrum of fluorine.
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"Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical and Physi(...TRUNCATED)
Joseph Lunt, B. Sc., F. I. C. |Sir David Gill, K. C. B., F. R. S., H. M.
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Data Card for the Royal Society Corpus (RSC) Version 6.0 Open

General Information

  • Dataset Name: Royal Society Corpus (RSC) 6.0 Open
  • Repository URL: Royal Society Corpus Access
  • Creator(s): Various authors contributing to the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
  • Maintained by: Saarland University
  • Dataset Version: 6.0 Open
  • License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

Dataset Description

Abstract

The RSC 6.0 encompasses over three centuries of scientific publications from the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, ranging from its inception in 1665 to 1920. It includes all types of publications, predominantly in English, capturing the evolution of scientific discourse over time.

Content Description
  • Content Type: Text (Journal articles)
  • Volume: Approximately 78.6 million tokens
  • Languages: Primarily English
  • Temporal Coverage: 1665 - 1920
  • Fields: Titles, Authors, Publication Dates, Text Bodies, Text Types (e.g., article, abstract)

Data Quality

  • Data Source: Digitized texts from the Royal Society of London and other journals, provided by JSTOR in XML format
  • Integrity and Processing: Texts have undergone OCR processing with subsequent corrections; further enriched through linguistic annotation

Data Structure and Accessibility

  • Access: The dataset is accessible for online search and can be downloaded in various formats including plain text and XML.
  • Query Tool: The data can be queried through the CQPweb server hosted by Saarland University after free registration.

Utilization and Citation

  • Use Cases: Suitable for historical linguistics, diachronic studies of scientific writing, and training data for natural language processing applications focused on historical text.
  • Citation: For publications using the dataset, please cite these papers:
@inproceedings{fischer2020royal,
title={The Royal Society Corpus 6.0: Providing 300+ Years of Scientific Writing for Humanistic Study},
author={Fischer, Stefan and Knappen, J{\"o}rg and Menzel, Katrin and Teich, Elke},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference},
pages={794--802},
year={2020},
organization={European Language Resources Association},
url={https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.lrec-1.99}
}
@inproceedings{kermes2016royal,
title={The Royal Society Corpus: From Uncharted Data to Corpus},
author={Kermes, Hannah and Degaetano-Ortlieb, Stefania and Khamis, Ashraf and Knappen, J{\"o}rg and Teich, Elke},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation},
pages={1928--1931},
year={2016},
organization={European Language Resources Association},
url={https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/L16-1305}
}

Additional Information

  • Support and Funding: The development of the RSC was supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), and the CLARIN-D infrastructure.
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