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ON Thursday next, March 14, Sir C. V. Boys more familiarly known as Prof. Boys, though the honour of knighthood was conferred upon him by H.M. The King at the beginning of this year will be eighty years of age; and his friends everywhere will, we are sure, be glad to associate themselves with us in offering him a tribute of esteem and congratulation on this event. The Royal Society Club, of which Boys is the senior member, is to celebrate the occasion with a festival dinner, at which he will be presented with an album containing the autographs of members of the Club. The Club consists of a group of fellows of the Royal Society who dine together on the days of the ordinary meetings. It was formed so long ago as 1743, and its history has been related in a substantial volume by Sir Archibald Geikie entitled “Annals of the Royal Society Club”, published in 1917. Benjamin Franklin was very frequently among the visitors in the latter half of the eighteenth century; and it is particularly appropriate to recall this association with the Club of the discoverer of the nature of lightning, and the recent work of Boys in the same field.
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Sir C. V. Boys, F.R.S. Nature 135, 365 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135365c0
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