 | William Rogers - Clergy - 1888 - 250 pages
...most kindly elected me under the rule which permits the special election each year of nine "persons of distinguished eminence in Science, Literature, or the Arts, or for Public Services." What gratified me not less than the personal compliment was the generous acknowledgment that the work... | |
 | Athenĉum Club (London, England) - 1840 - 162 pages
...number of persons to be thus admitted within the year shall be elected at any one Meeting. The Club intrust this privilege to the Committee, in the entire...distinguished eminence in Science, Literature, or the Arts. The Names of Members so elected are to be immediately hung up in the public rooms. Election by III.... | |
 | Athenĉum Club (London, England) - 1848 - 154 pages
...upon which it was originally founded, that the annual introduction of a certain number of persons of distinguished eminence in Science, Literature, or the Arts, or for Public Services, should be secured, a limited number of persons of such qualifications shall be elected by the Committee.... | |
 | Chemical Society (Great Britain) - Chemistry - 1918 - 480 pages
...February 26th, 1889. The rule provides for theĞannual introduction of a small number of "persons of distinguished eminence in science, literature, or the arts, or for public services." A few years later Russell became a member of the Committee. Russell delighted in the country and in... | |
 | Sir William Fairbairn - Biography & Autobiography - 1877 - 596 pages
...upon which it was originally founded, that the annual introduction of a certain number of persons of distinguished eminence in science, literature, or the arts, or for public services, should be secured, a limited number of persons of such qualifications shall be elected by the committee.... | |
 | William Henry Rideing - Literary landmarks - 1885 - 120 pages
...shall be elected by the Committee. The number so elected shall not exceed Nine each year . . . The Club intrust this privilege to the Committee, in the entire confidence that they will only elect persons who have attained to distinguished eminence in Science, Literature, or the Arts, or for Public Services."... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Authors, English 19th century Correspondence - 1886 - 346 pages
...Under Rule VI., which empowers the Committee (if unanimous) to elect " a limited number of persons of distinguished eminence in science, literature, or the arts, or for public services." 1834-1840.] JOURNEY THROUGH GREAT BRITAIN. 53 friends go as they like. Sydney Smith has given me a... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - London (England) - 1891 - 594 pages
...committee have the power of electing yearly, from the list of candidates for admission, a limited number of persons " who shall have attained to distinguished...Literature, or the Arts, or for Public Services," the number so elected not to exceed nine in each year. The numberof ordinary members is fixed at 1 200;... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1901 - 298 pages
...Club in London under the rule permitting the committee to elect nine persons annually "as being of distinguished eminence in Science, Literature or the Arts, or for Public Services. " In this very year it had been found worth while to collect and republish with additions such of his... | |
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London under the rule permitting the committee to elect nine persons annually "as being of distinguished eminence in Science, Literature or the Arts, or for Public Services. 
