The society was most active in the Japanese silver trade, wherein large quantities of Japanese silver would be shipped to Canton in exchange for Chinese silk ; but the superiors of the mission were aware of the inherent distastefulness of Society involvement in mercantile transactions and resolved to keep the traffic to a minimum.

After agreement with the Great Western Society to restore her to running order, the locomotive was shipped back to the UK and taken to her former home at the Didcot Railway Centre.

In 1941, German Templers were shipped from Palestine and interned for the duration of the war, which led to the establishment of the Temple Society Australia.

A supplementary grant from the Geological Society of America helped finance its publication.

Cafe Society opens formally this afternoon under its new ownership.

* IPS Publications on amber inclusions International Paleoentomological Society: Scientific Articles on amber and its inclusions

Hence he commissioned a book entitled The Quintessence of Histories to be worked upon by calligraphers, but forbade its illustration by the by-now largely dissolved Society of Miniaturists.

He was one of the founders of the Geological Society of London in 1807 and was its honorary secretary in 1812 – 1817.

He was founder of the Chemical Society of London in 1841, being its first Treasurer and second President.

In 1938, the first formal men's barbershop organization was formed, known as the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America ( S. P. E. B. S. Q. S. A ), and in 2004 rebranded itself and officially changed its public name to the Barbershop Harmony Society ( BHS ).

The Anthroposophical Society has its international center at the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland.

From 1900 on, thanks to the positive reception given to his ideas, Steiner focused increasingly on his work with the Theosophical Society becoming the secretary of its section in Germany in 1902.

The Second World War temporarily hindered the anthroposophical movement in most of Continental Europe, as the Anthroposophical Society and most of its daughter movements ( e. g. Steiner / Waldorf education ) were banned by the National Socialists ( Nazis ); virtually no anthroposophists ever joined the National Socialist Party.

* 1933 – Nazi Germany begins its persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses by shutting down the Watch Tower Society office in Magdeburg.

In 2006, the International Society for Intelligence Research awarded Jensen its Lifetime Achievement Award.

* Chemistry in its element podcast ( MP3 ) from the Royal Society of Chemistry's Chemistry World: Bromine

On 25 May 2011 the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society renamed its fast interceptor vessel, MV Gojira, as MV Brigitte Bardot in appreciation of her support.

In 2006 the Herald won two SABEW awards from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers for its breaking news coverage of the takeover of local company Gillette Co. and for overall excellence.

In 1997 the Linnean Society issued a posthumous apology to Potter for the sexism displayed in its handling of her research.

In 1993 Bakelite was designated a National Historic Chemical Landmark by the American Chemical Society in recognition of its significance as the world's first synthetic plastic.

And Burroughs built the backbone switching systems for Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication ( SWIFT ) which sent its first message in 1977.

On 22 February 2006, the channel was named News Channel of the Year at the Royal Television Society Television Journalism Awards for the first time in its history.

The Religious Society of Friends or Quaker Church is one of the earliest American opponents of capital punishment and unequivocally opposes execution in all its forms.

According to Emile Benveniste ( 1954 ), the earliest written occurrence in English of civilisation in its modern sense may be found in Adam Ferguson's An Essay on the History of Civil Society ( Edinburgh, 1767 – p. 2 ): " Not only the individual advances from infancy to manhood, but the species itself from rudeness to civilisation.

Traditionalist Roman Catholic groups, congregations and clergymen, however, continue to support missionizing Jews according to traditional patterns, sometimes with success ( e. g., the Society of St. Pius X which has notable Jewish converts among its faithful, many of whom have become traditionalist priests ).

While the institute is best known for its Millennium Prize Problems, it carries out a wide range of activities, including a postdoctoral program ( ten Clay Research Fellows are supported each year ) and an annual summer school, the proceedings of which are published jointly with the American Mathematical Society.

In 2005, the Taiwan Society of New York selected Doraemon as a culturally significant work of Japanese otaku pop-culture in its exhibit Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture, curated by renowned artist Takashi Murakami.

A museum was founded in 1857 under Bennet Woodcroft from the collection of the Royal Society of Arts and surplus items from the Great Exhibition as part of the South Kensington Museum, together with what is now the Victoria and Albert Museum.

In 1832, the year of a Reform Act which extended the vote in England but did not grant universal suffrage, six men from Tolpuddle in Dorset founded the Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers to protest against the gradual lowering of agricultural wages in the 1830s caused by the surplus supply of labour in an era when mechanisation was beginning to have an impact on agricultural working practices for the first time.

The Society is a not-for-profit publisher: surplus made by its publishing business is invested to support its aim of advancing the chemical sciences.

The Society changed in every way during those 21 years: its membership more than doubled ; finances went from deficits to a healthy surplus ; lectures expanded from about 20 per year to involve 450 speakers in a series of packed Monday-night events in London and at branches set up around the UK ; expedition training was introduced with the successful Expedition Advisory Centre ( run by Nigel Winser and Shane Winser ); the Victorian premises beside Hyde Park were fully restored and made more inviting with meals, bars, etc.

In February 1877 he attended the George and Dragon in his position as treasurer and persuaded the village labourers, who were suffering from wage cuts and a threat to their jobs in a farm slump, not to disband the Friendly Society and take the proceeds, but to keep some protection for their longer term security by keeping the books open while distributing their surplus funds.

It is legally an Industrial and Provident Society although it is set up as a not-for-profit organisation, with any surplus in revenue reinvested in either share purchases in the club, or in its various running costs and projects.

These included an explosives factory, railway workshops, Fiat Motor works, various food processing plants, electrical engineering workshops, ironworks, water plants, agricultural machinery factories, breweries, distilleries, biscuit factories, a tobacco factory, tanneries, bakeries, lime, brick and cement works, Esparto grass industry, mechanical saw mills, and the Petrolibya Society ( Trye 1998 ).

Two annual agricultural shows are held close to the town: the four-day Royal Bath and West Show, which is held at the showground of the Royal Bath and West of England Society near Evercreech, south-east of the town, while the one-day Mid-Somerset Show is held on fields on Shepton Mallet's southern edge.

The Native Americans of Wapakoneta adopted the agricultural methods that the missionaries from the Society of Friends had introduced to them.

Every year the Cranleigh & South Eastern Agricultural Society hold the Cranleigh Show, which is a traditional agricultural show.

The Tolpuddle Martyrs were a group of 19th century Dorset agricultural labourers who were arrested for and convicted of swearing a secret oath as members of the Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers.

He also set up the first agricultural training college in New South Wales and was the first patron of the New South Wales Agricultural Society.

* Maksymilian Jackowski ( 1815 – 1905 ), Polish activist, secretary-general of the Central Economic Society ( Centralne Towarzystwo Gospodarcze ), patron of the agricultural circles

The Entomological Society of America ( ESA ) was founded in 1889 and today has more than 6, 000 members, including educators, extension personnel, consultants, students, researchers, and scientists from agricultural departments, health agencies, private industries, colleges and universities, and state and federal governments.

* Otago Peninsula Museum & Historical Society Museum, Peninsula social and agricultural history, Portobello.

The Hitcham Labourers ' and Mechanics ' Horticultural Society was the vehicle used by Henslow to ' improve ' the labouring and agricultural workers in the village and its surrounds.

Born in Toronto, Ontario, the grandson of the founder of the Massey agricultural manufacturing company, Hart Massey, he attended St. Andrew's College in Aurora, Ontario and the University of Toronto, where he became a member of The Kappa Alpha Society, before attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he received a degree in engineering in 1923.

This resulted in the founding of the Wernerian Society ( 1808 – 1858 ), a parallel organisation that focused more upon natural history and scientific research that could be used to improve Scotland's weak agricultural and industrial base.

In this position he became increasingly interested in using statistics towards agricultural questions, and one of his first published papers to the Royal Statistical Society involved studying crop productivity using factor analysis.

It was begun in 1821 as an agricultural fair, but did not have a regular schedule until 1869 when hat manufacturers Rundle and White helped form the Danbury Farmers and Manufacturers Society.

It was in nineteenth-century Scotland that an agricultural organization that acted as both a trade union and a magical fraternity known as the Society of the Horseman's Word was founded.

Among his many other responsibilities he took over direction of Musa Alami's Arab Development Society in Jericho, which took boys out of Palestinian refugee camps to teach them agricultural and other skills.

In 1890, the Russian authorities approved the establishment of the " Society for the Support of Jewish Farmers and Artisans in Syria and Palestine ", dedicated to the practical aspects of establishing agricultural Jewish settlements there.

John Wynn Baker ( c. 1730 – 1775 ), agricultural improver and writer, established the first factory in Ireland in 1765 with the financial assistance of the Dublin Society on a property at Elm Hall on the Loughlinstown Road near the newly constructed Grand Canal at Hazlehatch for manufacturing agricultural implements.

Russia was amongst the largest exporters of agricultural produce, especially wheat, while the Free Economic Society made continuing efforts to improve farming techniques.

The underlying causes of the Swing Riots-low pay and increased mechanisation-remained however, and in 1832 a group of agricultural workers from Tolpuddle-eight miles north of Winfrith-formed a Friendly Society to protest against these same issues.

* Maksymilian Jackowski ( 1815-1905 ) was a Polish activist, secretary-general of the Central Economic Society ( Centralne Towarzystwo Gospodarcze ), patron of the agricultural circles.