Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15075

    Subscription form for Fellows

    Date
    14 November 1670
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p202
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 312mm
    width (page): 202mm
    Subject
    Description
    A small circle indicating the place where a seal should be affixed on the subscription form for Fellows, designed by John Hoskins, later President of the Royal Society.
    Object history
    At the council meeting of the Royal Society on 14 November 1670, ‘Mr. Hoskyns produced the legal form of subscriptions, which had been recommended by him at the last meeting of the council’ (Birch 2:452). Birch prints the full text.
    Related fellows
    John Hoskyns (1634 - 1705, British) , Natural philosopher
    Associated place
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