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… as ‘useful arts.’ 1 The Royal Society was a voluntary organization described by John Evelyn as an ‘assembly of many honourable gentlemen’ and was funded by members’ dues. 2 Despite its royal charter, financial assistance from the crown … with his correspondence. William Musgrave, secretary of the Oxford Philosophical Society, confided how much of an honour it was to be ‘made of the same body with the most learned men of these times [and] with several of the nobility’ …
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