Abstract
The Royal Society is the oldest scientific society in Great Britain and one of the earliest in Europe. It is usually considered to have been founded in 1660, though a nucleus had been in existence for several years before that date. From Charles II's reign onwards, British Governments have constantly appealed to the Royal Society for advice in connection with scientific undertakings. The Society elects some 32 Fellows annually, who have been proposed by six or more existing Fellows. Foreign Members, not exceeding 50 in all, may be selected by the Council from among “men of the greatest scientific eminence” abroad. From this it can be seen that Fellows of the Royal Society are among the most distinguished scientists in the country. It is not widely known that several psychiatrists have been Fellows of the Royal Society.
Highlights
The Royal Society is the oldest scientific society in Great Britain and one of the earliest in Europe
In 1785, he published A Treatise on Madness in which he made some censures on the practices formerly pursued at Bethlem
This led to a sharp rejoinder by Dr John Monro in a pamphlet the same year
Summary
In 1852 he raised the Exeter and South Devon Volunteers, which played an important role in the evolution of the Territorial Army established in 1908 He was a member of the humane school of reformers and in 1858 with Daniel Hack Tuke wrote the Manual of Psychological Medicine which ran into four editions. He became a leading authority in a remarkably broad field comprising the physiol ogy of the sense organs, psychology and anthro pology, all of which he regarded as different aspects of the same problems (the biological ruenadcetirostnandoifnmg an otof hmisane'nsvirmoninmde)n. Professor Michael Rutter (1933-, FRS 1987) was "Distinguished for his role in establishing child
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