Paper, 'History of the mace given to the Royal Society by Charles the Second' by Charles Richard Weld
Reference number: AP/28/27
Date: April 1846
Description
Weld explains how Charles the Second presented the mace to the Society in August 1664, and shares the history of the mace.
Marked on back as 'To be printed in full in the Proceedings 7 May 1846 S H C [Samuel Hunter Christie]'.
Subject: History
Received 2 April 1846. Communicated by the Marquess of Northampton.
The paper was published in volume 5 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'History of the mace given to the Royal Society by King Charles the Second'.
- Reference number
- AP/28/27
- Earliest possible date
- April 1846
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 18 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Charles Richard Weld, Paper, 'History of the mace given to the Royal Society by Charles the Second' by Charles Richard Weld, April 1846, AP/28/27, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_28_27/paper-history-of-the-mace-given-to-the-royal-society-by-charles-the-second-by-charles-richard-weld, accessed on 07 June 2026
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Date: 31st December 1851
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1843.0085
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Archived papers: volume 28, scientific papers submitted the Royal Society unpublished or abstracted, 1844-1846
1844-1846 Reference number: AP/28
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Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton
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