Since 1977, Elizabeth II has been a patron of the Society, and during the Society's centenary year of 1984 she acted as its president.

In 2001 he was awarded a British Computer Society's Lovelace Medal, and in 2005 he was made a Fellow of the Computer History Museum and honored with the Norbert Wiener Award, which is given annually by Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.

The name of George Fox is often invoked by traditionalist Friends who dislike modern liberal attitudes to the Society's Christian origins.

The Internet Society's Postel Award is named in his honor, as is the Postel Center at Information Sciences Institute.

The National Geographic Society's historical mission is " to increase and diffuse geographic knowledge while promoting the conservation of the world's cultural, historical, and natural resources.

The current Chairman of the Board of Trustees of National Geographic is Gilbert Melville Grosvenor, who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005 for the Society's leadership for Geography education.

The National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Awards weekend is an annual gala event which takes place at a site selected by the President.

The census was the Society's first attempt at a statistical evaluation of paranormal phenomena, and the resulting publication in 1886, Phantasms of the Living is still widely referenced in parapsychological literature today.

Three novels from this period, Stranger in a Strange Land, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, and Time Enough for Love, won the Libertarian Futurist Society's Prometheus Hall of Fame Award, designed to honor classic libertarian fiction.

There are also local and regional sub-groups, usually called " households ", which are not part of the Society's formal organization, the largest of which is the Mongol Empire-themed Great Dark Horde.

This system is not historically based, but was developed out of practical necessity early in the Society's history.

He reported the results by letter to the Royal Society of London and it is referred to as " an odd kind of sympathy " in the Society's minutes.

The inorganic section of the UK's Royal Society of Chemistry is named after Dalton ( Dalton Division ), and the Society's academic journal for inorganic chemistry also bears his name ( Dalton Transactions ).

This plant has ornamental value in large parks and gardens, and has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. http :// apps. rhs. org. uk / plantselector / plant? plantid = 6316 </ ref > In the United Kingdom it is universally called ' Douglas fir ' ( without the hyphen ).

* Fisk is also a recipient of the College Historical Society's Gold Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Public Discourse.

The Kuiper Prize, named in his honor, is the most distinguished award given by the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences, an international society of professional planetary scientists.

The following is a list of canna cultivars that have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

The threshold level of qualification for entry to the Register for clinical, counselling and educational psychologists is a professional doctorate ( and in the case of the latter two the British Psychological Society's Professional Qualification which meets the standards of a professional doctorate ).

Ordinarily, this is done by obtaining a Bachelor of Laws ( LLB ) in Scots law at a university approved by the Society, though it is also possible to sit the Society's own exams.

The Butler County Historical Society's office is located in this home.

A local landmark is Eltham College, a private school founded in 1842 as the London Missionary Society's School for the Sons of Missionaries, which moved to its present site in Mottingham in 1912.

* The Strong-Porter Museum, circa 1730, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and serves as the Coventry Historical Society's museum.

The Audubon Society's Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary is nearby.

Readington Township is bounded on the north by the Lamington River and Rockaway Creek ; to the east by Somerset County, which existed as the boundary between East and West Jersey from 1688 – 1695 ; to the south, the South Branch of the Raritan River ; and to the west by the old West Jersey Society's line which crosses the Cushetunk Mountains.

" and " Her own reviews of Ewen's work in the Folk-Lore Society's periodical were amazingly ungracious, avoiding any engagement with his actual arguments or evidence and dismissing him completely in general terms as ' unscientific ', ' uncritical ', ' dull ', and so valueless and worthy only to be ignored.

The Society's Patron is Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

Her father was a life member of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society ; and her older brother Charles Lenox Remond was the American Anti-Slavery Society's first black lecturer and the nation's leading black abolitionist until Frederick Douglass appeared on the scene in 1842.

The Society's inaugural Fellows appointed in 2009 were presented with their Fellowships by the Society's Patron, the Governor-General of Australia, Her Excellency, Ms Quentin Bryce on 29 March 2010 at Admiralty House in Sydney.

They were presented with their Fellowships by the Society's Patron, the Governor of New South Wales, Her Excellency, Professor Maree Bashir on 18 February 2011 at the Society's Annual Dinner in Sydney.

The following year, during Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, Whistler presented to the Queen, on the Society's behalf, an elaborate album including a lengthy written address and illustrations that he made.

Sir Hercules Robinson sent him to British Bechuanaland in August 1884 as deputy-commissioner to succeed Reverend John Mackenzie, the London Missionary Society's representative at Kuruman, who proclaimed Queen Victoria's authority over the district in May 1883.

* The Jubilee Time Capsule-The Royal Commonwealth Society's Jubilee Time Capsule to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee in 2012.

Society's Queen: The Life of Edith, Marchioness of Londonderry.

The Convenors of Debates of the Glasgow University Union and Queen Margaret Union and the Society's immediate Past President are also ex officio members of the Board.

The exhibition on her career, " The Queen of Off-Broadway " ( displayed in the White Barn Theatre Museum in 1996 ), was mounted in the lobby of the Miller Theatre on the Columbia University campus during February 1997, at the Westport Historical Society's Wheeler House in conjunction with the June 28th cabaret evening that honored Ms. Lortel and the 50th Anniversary of the White Barn Theatre.

troopers, apparently led by the Queen Bee, they discover the Society's plans for the ' Vindication Scenario ' - erasing the memories of all of Earth's superheroes.

In December, 2001, on the initiative of its then President, Dr. Kevin Greaves, the Society petitioned the Queen via the Governor General to grant the designation " Royal " to the Society's name.

In 2000 he was awarded the Royal Gold Medal, Scotland's supreme academic accolade, by Queen Elizabeth II, the only historian winner to date, and in 2005 was appointed OBE in the New Years Honours List for ' services to Scottish history '. In 2012 Devine won the Senior Royal Society of Edinburgh / Beltane Prize for Excellence in Public Engagement and in that year too the Society's Inaugural Sir Walter Scott Senior Prize for Excellence in the Humanities and Creative Arts.

Steiner's continuing differences with Besant led him to separate from the Theosophical Society Adyar ; he was followed by the great majority of the membership of the Theosophical Society's German Section, as well as members of other national sections.

Watterson was awarded the National Cartoonists Society's Humor Comic Strip Award in 1988 and the society's Reuben Award in 1986 ; he was the youngest person ever to receive the latter award.

Performers and producers associated with the style came from around the world, including Turk Murat Konar, the writer of Information Society's " Running "; Paul Lekakis, from Greece ; and Freeez, Paul Hardcastle and Samantha Fox, from the United Kingdom.

The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary ( 1921 – 25 ) defines hīna in even stronger terms, with a semantic field that includes " poor, miserable ; vile, base, abject, contemptible ," and " despicable.

While a board of elders was elected for the enforcement of the Society's rules and regulations, business management passed to its trustees: Baker and Henrici, 1847 – 68 ; Henrici and Jonathan Lenz, 1869 – 90 ; Henrici and Wolfel, 1890 ; Henrici and John S. Duss, 1890 – 1892 ; Duss and Seiber, 1892 – 1893 ; Duss and Reithmuller, 1893 – 1897 ; Duss, 1897 – 1903 ; and finally to Suzanna ( Susie ) C. Duss in 1903.

Today, many of the Society's remaining buildings are preserved ; all three of their settlements in the United States have been declared National Historic Landmark Districts by the National Park Service.

; The Stephen Sondheim Society's Student Performer of the Year Competition

In 1976, he received the World Science Fiction Society's Gandalf Grand Master award for lifetime achievement in fantasy writing ; he was designated a SFWA Grandmaster in 1979.

Hooke told Newton that Hooke had been appointed to manage the Royal Society's correspondence, and wished to hear from members about their researches, or their views about the researches of others ; and as if to whet Newton's interest, he asked what Newton thought about various matters, giving a whole list, mentioning " compounding the celestial motions of the planets of a direct motion by the tangent and an attractive motion towards the central body ", and " my hypothesis of the lawes or causes of springinesse ", and then a new hypothesis from Paris about planetary motions ( which Hooke described at length ), and then efforts to carry out or improve national surveys, the difference of latitude between London and Cambridge, and other items.

Dench has received many award nominations for her acting in theatre, film and television ; her awards include eleven BAFTAs, ( including the Bafta Fellowship in 2001 ) seven Laurence Olivier Awards, ( including the Society's Special Award ) two Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Golden Globes, an Academy Award, and a Tony Award.

The midweek meeting, typically held in the evening, includes a question-and-answer " Congregation Bible Study " ( 25 minutes ) based on a Watch Tower Society publication ,; the " Theocratic Ministry School " ( 30 minutes ), designed to train Witnesses in public speaking and proselytizing using talks and rehearsals of doorstop sermons ; and the " Service Meeting " ( 35 minutes ), following an agenda set in the Society's monthly newsletter Our Kingdom Ministry to train Witnesses to participate in the public ministry.

There is a Jesuit Center with a small Jesuit community here ; Wernersville was once the location of the Jesuit novitiate center for the Society's Maryland Province, before the novitiates of the New York and Maryland provinces merged and it was relocated to Syracuse, New York.

Rawlinson's published works include four volumes of cuneiform inscriptions, published under his direction between 1870 and 1884 by the trustees of the British Museum ; The Persian Cuneiform Inscription at Behistun ( 1846 – 51 ) and Outline of the History of Assyria ( 1852 ), both reprinted from the Asiatic Society's journals ; A Commentary on the Cuneiform Inscriptions of Babylon and Assyria ( 1850 ); Notes on the Early History of Babylonia ( 1854 ); and England and Russia in the East ( 1875 ).

It was also revealed in the 1980s that the JSA had a loose affiliation with the All-Star Squadron ; the All-Star Squadron's adventures were set in the 1940s, and considered to have happened concurrently with the Justice Society's, an example of " retconning ", or retroactive continuity, where new material is inserted into already existent continuity.

The Society's name is said to have been based on the 18th-century Federalist Party ; however, James Madison associated with Thomas Jefferson and the Democratic-Republican Party in opposition to Federalist Party policies borne from a loose interpretation of the Commerce Clause.