By Charles Babbage
DEDICATION.
PREFACE.
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.
CHAPTER I. ON THE RECIPROCAL INFLUENCE OF SCIENCE AND EDUCATION.
CHAPTER II. OF THE INDUCEMENTS TO INDIVIDUALS TO CULTIVATE SCIENCE.
SECTION 1. PROFESSIONAL IMPULSES.
SECTION 2. OF NATIONAL ENCOURAGEMENT.
SECTION 3. Of Encouragement from Learned Societies.
CHAPTER III. GENERAL STATE OF LEARNED SOCIETIES IN ENGLAND.
CHAPTER IV. STATE OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY IN PARTICULAR.
SECTION 1. MODE OF BECOMING A FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY.
SECTION 2. OF THE PRESIDENCY AND VICE-PRESIDENCIES.
SECTION 3. OF THE SECRETARISHIPS.
SECTION 4. OF THE SCIENTIFIC ADVISERS.
SECTION 5. OF THE UNION OF SEVERAL OFFICES IN ONE PERSON.
SECTION 6. OF THE FUNDS OF THE SOCIETY.
SECTION 7. OF THE ROYAL MEDALS.
SECTION 8. OF THE COPLEY MEDALS.
SECTION 9. OF THE FAIRCHILD LECTURE.
SECTION 10. OF THE CROONIAN LECTURE.
SECTION 11. OF THE CAUSES OF THE PRESENT STATE OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY.
SECTION 12. OF THE PLAN FOR REFORMING THE SOCIETY.
CHAPTER V. OF OBSERVATIONS.
SECTION 1. OF MINUTE PRECISION.
SECTION 2. ON THE ART OF OBSERVING.
SECTION 3. ON THE FRAUDS OF OBSERVERS.
CHAPTER VI. SUGGESTIONS FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE IN ENGLAND.
SECTION 1. OF THE NECESSITY THAT MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY SHOULD EXPRESS THEIR OPINIONS.
SECTION 2. OF BIENNIAL PRESIDENTS.
SECTION 3. OF THE INFLUENCE OF THE COLLEGES OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS
SECTION 4. OF THE INFLUENCE OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION ON THE ROYAL SOCIETY.
SECTION 5. OF THE TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY.
SECTION 6. ORDER OF MERIT.
SECTION 7. OF THE UNION OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES.
CONCLUSION.
APPENDIX, No. 1.
APPENDIX, No. 2.
APPENDIX, No. 3,
LIST OF THE MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY, WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THE
