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1. Croatian Mathematical Society - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Societies/Croatian/

   7 Mar 2023: The Croatian Natural History Society was founded in 1885 in Zagreb with a view to developing and popularising the natural sciences. ... Over time, almost all Croatian scientific societies have had their genesis in the Croatian Natural History Society.

2. Bakerian Lecturer - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Honours/Bakerian/

   7 Mar 2023: oration or discourse which was to be spoken or read yearly by one of the Fellows of the Royal Society:-. ... on such part of natural history or experimental philosophy, at such time and in such manner as the President and the Council of the Society for

3. Alexander Burgess (1872 - 1932) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Burgess/

   1 May 2023: 11, vice-President in 1911-12, and as President of the Society in 1912-13. ... In addition Burgess was a member of the Educational Institute for Scotland and the Bute Natural History Society.

4. Percy MacMahon addresses the British Association in 1901 - MacTutor…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/BA_1901_1/

   7 Mar 2023: An inspection of the documents establishes that it was mainly a society devoted to physics, chemistry and natural history. ... It had an extensive museum of curiosities and specimens of natural history, presented by individual members, which seems to

5. Otto Toeplitz PDF (755k)

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Strick/toeplitz.pdf

   7 Aug 2023: In 1926, at the annual conference of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Physicians in Düsseldorf, TOEPLITZ gave a much-acclaimed lecture on the teaching of calculus, in which he ... Physik (Sources and Studies on the History of Mathematics,

6. Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (C) -…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miller/mathword/c/

   16 Apr 2024: See. BAIRE CATEGORY. CATEGORY (theory). The term category was introduced byGeneral Theory of Natural Equivalences," Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. ... 39. The history of the contributing inequalities is given in Inequalities

7. Zurich Scientific Research Society - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Societies/Zurich/

   7 Mar 2023: Gessner was elected as President of the new Society. The Physical Society soon built up a scientific library, a collection of mathematical and physical instruments, natural history collections, a botanical garden, ... The wide range of activities of the

8. Charles Cailler (1865 - 1922) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Cailler/

   22 Jan 2024: He was President of the Society of Physics and Natural History of Geneva for the year 1883. ... Gabriel Oltramare had studied mathematics and natural sciences at the University of Geneva from 1836 to 1839 before going to Paris where he was a pupil of

9. Norwegian Royal Society - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Societies/Royal_Norwegian_Society/

   7 Mar 2023: Natural history and archaeological gatherings were created and from the start a library was established. ... A modern museum was established that was also a library. 'Vitenskapsmuseet' is today a part of the university in Trondheim and still has both

10. John Purser (1835 - 1903) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Purser/

    7 Mar 2023: 1839, who became a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin and Professor of Natural Philosophy in Dublin. ... Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society, 1924), 98-99.