1. Prosopography as a Research Tool in History of Science: The British Scientific Community 1700–1900
2. Hahn R., The anatomy of a scientific institution: The Paris Academy of Sciences, 1666–1803 (California, 1971), 1–3, is a good recent discussion of this view.
3. Hoppen T. K., The common scientist in the seventeenth century: A study of the Dublin Philosophical Society, 1683–1708 (London, 1970), 210–11, has a brief discussion of late seventeenth and early eighteenth century Scottish attempts to set up scientific societies.