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It's not entirely clear that you know what the Royal Society actually did. It was hardly a model. The Royal Institution is more along the lines of what you de
by shawn-butler 14y ago
It's not entirely clear that you know what the Royal Society actually did. It was hardly a model.
The Royal Institution is more along the lines of what you describe. Or here in the US, the Wood's Hole oceanographic institute. It was pretty much propped up by the Rockefellers.
- Gormo 14y agoA better historical parallel in America would be the American Philisophical Society [1], founded by Benjamin Frankin in 18th-century Philadelphia. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Philosophical_Society http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Philosophical_Society
- shawn-butler 14y agoA fine institution; it served as kind of a national library, museum, even a pseudo-patent office until there were actual federal institutions funded for those purposes. Pretty significant no doubt, but it never conducted original research apart from "paying" for the publication of the Proceedings. Wasn't until around 1940s that they even started having grants and postdocs, but they aren't significant enough stipends to conduct original research.
- phreeza 14y agoWood's Hole and Janelia Farm were the 2 places that came to my mind, too.