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Sci Can. 1996;20:3-99. doi: 10.7202/800397ar.
This paper is a history of the Science Academy of the Royal Society of Canada, from its foundation in 1882 until the early 1990s. The RSC has always had an honorific role, but it has sought a more substantive one in scientific publication (a role that it has largely lost to the National Research Council and to other scientific societies and journals), in educating the public, in reperesenting Canada internationally, and in undertaking scientific inquiries of public import, for example in assessing the risks associated with nuclear winter, or in the Canadian Global Change Program. Often, Fellows of the RSC have individually achieved more in science than the Society has achieved institutionally but as this narrative shows, the dynamic between science, government, the RSC, and the Canadian public, has been important in Canadian science and in Canadian history.
本文讲述了加拿大皇家学会科学院的历史，从1882年成立至20世纪90年代初。加拿大皇家学会一直扮演着荣誉性角色，但它在科学出版（这一角色在很大程度上已被国家研究委员会以及其他科学协会和期刊取代）、公众教育、代表加拿大参与国际事务以及开展具有重大公共意义的科学探究（例如评估与核冬天相关的风险，或参与加拿大全球变化项目）方面寻求发挥更具实质性的作用。通常，加拿大皇家学会的会员个人在科学领域取得的成就比学会在机构层面取得的成就更大，但正如本文所述，科学、政府、加拿大皇家学会和加拿大公众之间的互动在加拿大科学以及加拿大历史中一直都很重要。
