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Their actions, in turn, bred popular resentment among Quiteños, who, after several days of street fighting in August 1810, won an agreement to be governed by a junta composed with a majority of Criollos, although with the Peninsular president of the Royal Audience of Quito acting as its head.
As an alumnus, he later helped to set up the Royal College of Science Association, of which he became the first president in 1909.
In 1876 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society ; from 1878 to 1891 he was president of the Royal Historical Society ; and in 1881 he became president of both the Royal Geographical Society and the Girls ' Day School Trust.
He served as the federal president of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists in 1969 70, and also as the president for its Victoria branch from 1963 until his death in 1980.
Clements Markham, president of the Royal Geographic Society, called the journey the " finest ever performed by dogs.
Lord Rayleigh was elected Fellow of the Royal Society on 12 June 1873, and served as president of the Royal Society from 1905 to 1908.
From 2009 to 2012 Palin was the president of the Royal Geographical Society.
Rayleigh and Ramsay received the 1904 Nobel Prizes in Physics and in Chemistry, respectively, for their discovery of the noble gases ; in the words of J. E. Cederblom, then president of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, " the discovery of an entirely new group of elements, of which no single representative had been known with any certainty, is something utterly unique in the history of chemistry, being intrinsically an advance in science of peculiar significance ".
It is currently composed by a president, nominated by the Council of MInisters, several ex officio councilors — former prime ministers of Spain, directors or presidents of the Royal Spanish Academy, the Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation, the Royal Academy of History, the Social and Economic Council, the Attorney General of the State, the Chief of Staff, the governor of the Bank of Spain, the Director of the Juridical Service of the State, and the presidents of the General Commission of Codification and Law — several permanent councilors, appointed by decree, and no more than ten elected councilors in addition to the Council's Secretary General.
In a 1986 press release to the newspapers and leading magazines in Great Britain, Canada and the USA, the SPR retracted the Hodgson report, after a re-examination of the case by the Fortean psychic Dr. Vernon Harrison, past president of The Royal Photographic Society and formerly Research Manager to Thomas De La Rue, an expert on forgery, as follows: " Madame Blavatsky, co-founder of the Theosophical Society, was unjustly condemned, new study concludes.
The name Simpson Desert was coined by Cecil Madigan, after Alfred Allen Simpson, an Australian philanthropist, geographer, and president of the South Australian branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia.
* Harold Coward, world-reowned scholar in religious studies and a president of Academy 2 of the Royal Society of Canada
* August 13 Martin Archer Shee, Irish painter and president of the Royal Academy ( b. 1770 )
Banks was made a baronet in 1781, three years after being elected president of the Royal Society.
This 1812 print depicts Banks as president of the Royal Society and wearing the insignia of the Order of the Bath
In May 1820 he forwarded his resignation as president of the Royal Society, but withdrew it at the request of the council.

president and Geographical
The National Antarctic Expedition, known as the Discovery Expedition after the ship Discovery, was the brainchild of Sir Clements Markham, president of the Royal Geographical Society, and had been many years in preparation.
While in New York, Bancroft acted as a founding member of the American Geographical Society and served as the society's first president for nearly three years ( Feb. 21, 1852 — Dec.
in 1889, and a Baronet in 1891 ; was president of the Royal Geographical Society from 1874 to 1875, and of the Asiatic Society from 1878 to 1881 ; and received honorary degrees at Oxford, Cambridge, and Edinburgh.
In the following year he was granted a professorship of geography ( without chair or regular pay ) at Berlin University and appointed president of the Geographical Society.
Apart from his political career Goderich served as president of the Royal Geographical Society from 1830 to 1833, and of the Royal Society of Literature from 1834 to 1845.
During the later years of his life a large part of his time was devoted to the affairs of the Royal Geographical Society, of which he was in 1830 one of the founders, and he was president 1843-1845, 1851 1853, 1856 1859 and 1862-1871.
At the Paris exhibition of 1900 he received the gold medal for mountain surveys, and the founders medal of the Royal Geographical Society in 1905, and served as President of the Alpine Club for 1902 04 and became the first president of The Alpine Ski Club at its inaugural meeting in 1908.
He was secretary of the Royal Geographical Society ( RGS ) between 1863 and 1888, and later served as the Society's president for a further 12 years.
The mountain was named after Sir Henry Bartle Frere, a British colonial administrator and then president of the Royal Geographical Society by George Elphinstone Dalrymple in 1873.
Sir Clements Markham, the Royal Geographical Society president who opposed Borchgrevink's Antarctic plans
In 1899 Bruce, by then Britain's most experienced polar scientist, applied for a post on Robert Falcon Scott's Discovery Expedition, but delays over this appointment and clashes with Royal Geographical Society ( RGS ) president Sir Clements Markham led him instead to organise his own expedition, and earned him the permanent enmity of the British geographical establishment.
He was for some years president of the Royal Geographical Society, and he served on many commissions.
He was three times president of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society and a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of London.
He served as president of the German Geographical Society for many years, and founded the Berlin Hydrographical Institute.
He was elected to the French Academy of Sciences in 1885 and was the president of the French Geographical Society from 1901 to 1905.
From 1963-67 he was president of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.

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Vast spraying programs conducted by `` technicians with narrow training and little wisdom '' are endangering crops and wildlife, Carl W. Buchheister, president of the National Audubon Society, said today.
Mrs. Norman Livermore, president of the Marin Conservation League, handed over the deed to the 645-acre tidelands tract south of Greenwood Beach to Carl W. Buchheister, president of the Society.
The silver and ebony plaques will be presented at noon luncheons by Stanley Marcus, president of Neiman-Marcus, Beneficiary of the proceeds from the two showings will be the Dallas Society for Crippled Children Cerebral Palsy Treatment Center.
In his final years in New Jersey, he was a prominent member and later president of the Theosophical Society.
Leyton is the president of the International Society for Mathematical and Computational Aesthetics and the
The split became irrevocable when Annie Besant, then president of the Theosophical Society, began to present the child Jiddu Krishnamurti as the reincarnated Christ.
He played a major role in establishing the University of Pennsylvania and was elected the first president of the American Philosophical Society.
* Spencer Houghton Cone ( born 1785 ), US Baptist minister and president of the American and Foreign Bible Society
They had one son, Charles Evans Hughes, Jr. and three daughters, one of whom was Elizabeth Hughes Gossett, one of the first humans injected with insulin, and who later served as president of the Supreme Court Historical Society.
He is also president of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism.
Isaac Baker Brown ( 1812 1873 ), an English gynaecologist who was president of the Medical Society of London in 1865, believed that the " unnatural irritation " of the clitoris caused epilepsy, hysteria, and mania, and would remove it " whenever he had the opportunity of doing so ," according to an obituary.
He was president of the Aristotelian Society from 1918-19.
He was a member of the Melbourne Inter-University Debating team and the United Australia Organization ' A ' Grade debating team, and was president of both the Sports and Social Club and the Law Students ' Society.
* John Ford Paterson ( 1851 1912 ), Scottish-Australian landscape painter ; elected president of Victorian Artists Society in 1902 ; highly regarded 1896 painting Evening in the Bush
He remained active, becoming a committed advocate of the new technology of Television which included serving as the first president of the Television Society.
She studied at St Paul's Girls ' School, read history at Somerville College, Oxford, England, and became the first female president of the Oxford University Archaeological Society.
A former president of the American Physical Society, Lederman also received the National Medal of Science, the Wolf Prize and the Ernest O. Lawrence Medal.

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