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    The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) is Scotland's national academy of science and letters. It is a registered charity that operates on a wholly independent...
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    Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science...
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    The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (RIE) was established in 1729, and is the oldest voluntary hospital in Scotland. The new buildings of 1879 were claimed...
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  • The Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh was a learned society based in Edinburgh, Scotland "for the cultivation of the physical sciences". The society was...
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  • The Edinburgh Mathematical Society is a mathematical society for academics in Scotland. The Society was founded in 1883 by a group of Edinburgh school...
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    research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Founded by the town council under the authority of a royal charter of King James VI in 1582 and officially...
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    Duke of Edinburgh KG Kt OM GBE FRS Statute 12", Royal Society, archived from the original on 24 November 2015 Longair, Malcolm (2021), "His Royal Highness...
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    While the area around modern-day Edinburgh has been inhabited for thousands of years, the history of Edinburgh as a definite settlement can be traced...
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    The Royal Edinburgh Hospital is a psychiatric hospital in Morningside Place, Edinburgh, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Lothian. The "foundational myth"...
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    fellowship of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL), the Royal Society of Edinburgh (HonFRSE) and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (FRCPE)....
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    antiquities, culture and history, and the adjacent Royal Scottish Museum (opened in 1866 as the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art, renamed in 1904, and for the...
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  • Royal Society of Edinburgh; Fellow, King's College London; Fellow, Institute of Biology (becoming the Society of Biology); Fellow, the Royal Society of...
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    The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) (Scottish Gaelic: Gàrradh Luibh-eòlais Rìoghail Dhùn Èideann) is a scientific centre for the study of plants...
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    in Edinburgh at the junction of The Mound and Princes Street. The RI shared the premises with other cultural organisations, the Royal Society of Edinburgh...
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    William Cullen (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh)
    in obtaining a royal charter for the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh, resulting in the formation of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1783. Cullen...
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    Holyrood(house)". The Royal Mile runs between two significant locations in the royal history of Scotland: Edinburgh Castle and the Palace of Holyroodhouse. The...
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    August 1950 – 6 February 1952: Her Royal Highness Princess Anne of Edinburgh 6 February 1952 – 15 November 1973: Her Royal Highness The Princess Anne 15 November...
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    1993 Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X...
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    James Murray (biologist) (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh)
    species and forma of rotifer and 66 species of tardigrade. In July 1907, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were...
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    Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd) is a professional organisation of surgeons. The RCSEd has five faculties, covering a broad spectrum of...
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    William Franklin (category Founder Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh)
    188–89. Biographical Index of Former Fellows of The Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783 – 2002 (PDF). Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. p. 330. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X...
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    Daniel Rutherford (category Founder Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh)
    of the founding members of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh and served as President in 1787. In 1783 he was a joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh...
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    Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the Fellows of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made...
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    Robert William Thomson (category Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame inductees)
    Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. see...
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    William Smellie (encyclopedist) (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh)
    edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. He was also a naturalist and antiquary. He was a joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, co-founder of the...
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    Harveian Society of Edinburgh was founded in April 1782 by Andrew Duncan. The Society holds an annual Festival in honour of the life and works of William...
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    John Curtice (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh)
    elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1992 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2004. In 2014 he was elected a Fellow of the British...
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    Leroy Cronin (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh)
    of Chemistry in the School of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow. He was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Royal Society...
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    Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002: Biographical Index (PDF). Vol. II. Edinburgh: The Royal Society of Edinburgh. ISBN 978-0-902198-84-5...
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    Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Earth Sciences, 94, 411–428 Remy, W.; Hass, H. (1996). "New information on gametophytes and sporophytes of Aglaophyton...
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