IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0117 BR
Held at: Royal Society
Title: Bulloch's Roll
Date(s): 1663-1940
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 11 sheaf volumes
Name of creator(s): Bullock | William | 1868-1941
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Roll proper ceased in 1940. It was superceded by the 'Personal Records', and subsequently the Sackler Resource (electronic database of Fellows).
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
A biographical listing of the Fellows of the Royal Society 1663-1940 in the form of a sheaf catalogue compiled by William Bullock. Also includes other items, included from annotated copies of the 3rd and 4th editions of 'The Record of the Royal Society', from which the Roll derived its arrangement: lists of Medical Fellows, and Fellows who did not sign the Charter Book: and biogrphical accounts of the Auldjo family, with various rough notes by Bulloch. The Roll provides a chronological list of the Fellowship by date of election. It records the Fellow's name as it appeared in 'The Record' and in a corrected form, giving the date of election and positions held in the Society. The Roll also provides a short biography based on entries in standard printed works of reference, (such as 'The Dictionary of National Biography', Cockayne's 'Peerage' and 'Baronetage', 'The Gentleman's Magazine', 'Munks Roll of the Royal College of Physicians', Boase's 'Modern English Biography', and the volumes of 'Who's Who' and 'Who Was Who').
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Chronologically by year, and alphabetically within each year.
Conditions governing access:
Open
Conditions governing reproduction:
No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Biographical (alphabetically arranged) index of 13 sheaf volumes. Includes date of election of each Fellow,(thereby allowing access to the Roll entries), and also gives dates of birth and death, detail's of Soveriegn's honours awarded to individual Fellows, positions held in the Society, medals awarded (Royal Society and Nobel only), lectures given (Royal Society named lectures only) and main sources of biographical information in standard works of reference.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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ALLIED MATERIALS
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Related material:
The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Archive Resource (database, available on Royal Society website) contains biographical data on Fellows of the Royal Society based on information from Bulloch's Roll, but continually updated.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2009.