Royal Meteorological Society

Sept. 1946.

Royal Meteorological Society of 49, Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London S.W.7.

1850. The Society was founded under the title of the British Meteorological Society, for the promotion of the science of meteorology in all its branches.

1855 Scottish Meteorological Society was founded

1883 The Meteorological Society became the Royal Meteorological Society

1894 Held their 14th exhibition of instruments in the rooms of the Institution of Civil Engineers at 25 Great George Street, Westminster, London.

1921 the Scottish Meteorological Society was incorporated with the Royal Meteorological Society.

Past Members included:

• E. H. Chapman
• H. J. Bartlett
• B. C. Wallis
• C. J. P. Cave (President 1914).
• H. N. Dickson (President 1911).
• H. S. Eaton (President 1876).
• James Lloyd Ashbury
• John Brown
• Edmund Cruse
• James Eldridge
• George Garnett
• John Hopkinson - might this be John Hopkinson (1849 - 1898)?
• Robert Pickwell
• William Ford Stanley
• Rupert Swindells
• Charles Tarrant
• Thomas Taylor-Smith.
• H. J. Lyons - (President 1917)

1946

• President: Prof. S. Chapman, F.R.S.
• Membership: 750.
• Secretary: A. Hampton Brown.
• Telephone: Western 0730.

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