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Royal Scottish Society of Arts (RSSA)

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Royal Scottish Society of Arts (RSSA)
Founding of the Society
Year
Authority / Notes
1821

According to its website (), the Society was founded in 1821 as the Society for the Encouragement of the Useful Arts in Scotland, and was incorporated as a Royal Society in 1841. Its publications make it clear that the name from 1841 to 1950 was Royal Scottish Society of Arts; its website () makes it clear that this is still the current name.

Seat of the Society
City
Authority / Notes
Edinburgh
Scotland
This location is supported by its website ().
Name of the Society
Dates
Name
Authority
1821 - 1841 Society for the Encouragement of the Useful Arts in Scotland Its website () establishes the name, start date and end date for this name.
1841 - Royal Scottish Society of Arts Its publications establish this name from 1841 to 1950. Its website () establishes 1841 as the start date, and indicates that it is the current name.
Royal Scottish Society of Arts (RSSA)
Journals of the Society
Years
Full Journal Title
Abbrev.
Indexed
1837/1841 - 1914/1925 (Vol.1 - v.19)
 
A

Transactions of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts

According to a record in the Cambridge Univ. cat., the cover title for vol. 1, 1837/41 was Select papers read before the Society of Arts for Scotland, and the cover title for v. 17, April 1906-Dec. 1907 was Journal of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts.

According to a record in the Cambridge Univ. cat., proceedings, lists of members, prizes offered, etc., etc., were included in appendixes to v. 1-18, and early material was originally published in Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal. That record also notes that v. 19 is a combined no., dated 1914/25 (the activities of the Society were suspended from 1915 to 1920 inclusive).

Continued by B.

[Cambridge Univ. cat.; National Lib. Scotland cat.]

Edinb. Trans. Scot. Soc. Arts
[RSLC, v.1, p.xxx]
Proc. R. Scot. Soc. Arts
[Notes Rec. Roy. Soc., Vol. 26, No. 2 (Dec., 1971), p.246 cites 8 (1873).]
Roy. Scot. Soc. of Arts Proc.
[Proc. Roy. Soc., Vol. 66 (1899 - 1900), p.207 cites 1871-72.]
Trans. Roy. Scot. Soc. Arts
[Phil. Trans., Vol. 152 (1862), p.22 cites 1861.
Trans. Royal Scottish Soc. Arts
[Science, New Series, Vol. 49, No. 1270 (May 2, 1919), p.415 cites 4, 1854.]
RSLC
Oct. 1926 - Apr. 1929 (Vol.1, pt.1 - v.3, pt.3)
 
B

Edinburgh Journal of Science, Technology and Photographic Art, being the Transactions of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts ; Edinburgh Photographic Society ; Edinburgh & District Radio Society and Edinburgh Electrical Society

Continues A.

Continued by C.

[Nat. Lib. Scotland cat.]

   
Oct. 1929 (Vol.4, pt.1)
 
C

Edinburgh Journal of Science, Technology and Photographic Art, being the transactions of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts ; Edinburgh Photographic Society ; Edinburgh & District Radio Society ; Edinburgh Electrical Society and Edinburgh Association of Science and Arts

Continues B.

Continued by D.

[Nat. Lib. Scotland cat.]

   
Jan. 1930 - Jan. 1931 (Vol.4, pt.2 - v.5, pt.2)
 
D

Edinburgh Journal of Science, Technology and Photographic Art, being the transactions of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts ; Edinburgh Photographic Society ; Edinburgh & District Radio Society ; Edinburgh Electrical Society ; Edinburgh Association of Science and Arts and Electrical Association for Women.

Continues C.

Continued by E.

[Nat. Lib. Scotland cat.]

   
Apr. 1931 (Vol.5, pt.3)
 
E

Edinburgh Journal of Science, Technology and Photographic Art, being the transactions of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts ; Edinburgh Photographic Society ; Edinburgh & District Radio Society ; Edinburgh Electrical Society and Electrical Association for Women

Continues D.

Continued by F.

[Nat. Lib. Scotland cat.]

   
Oct. 1931 (Vol.6, pt.1)
 
F

Edinburgh Journal of Science, Technology and Photographic Art, being the transactions of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts ; Edinburgh Photographic Society ; Edinburgh Association of Science and Arts and Electrical Association for Women

Continues E.

Continued by G.

[Nat. Lib. Scotland cat.]

   
Jan. 1932 - Apr. 1932 (Vol.6, pt.2 - v.6, pt.3)
 
G

Edinburgh Journal of Science, Technology and Photographic Art, being the transactions of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts ; Edinburgh Photographic Society ; and Edinburgh Association of Science and Arts

Continues F.

Continued by H.

[Nat. Lib. Scotland cat.]

   
Oct. 1932 - 1948/1949/1950 (Vol.7, pt.1 - v.22)
 
H

Edinburgh Journal of Science, Technology and Photographic Art, being the transactions of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, incorporating the Edinburgh Association of Science and Arts ; and of the Edinburgh Photographic Society

Continues G.

Continued by I.

[Nat. Lib. Scotland cat.]

   
1950/1951 - 1951/1952) (Vol.25 - v.26)
 
I

Edinburgh Journal of Science and Technology

Continues H.

[Nat. Lib. Scotland cat.]

   
Apr. 1956 - Mar. 1970 (No.1 - no.26)
 
J

Bulletin / Royal Scottish Society of Arts

[Nat. Lib. Scotland cat.]

   

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