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The Asiatic Society is a Government of India organisation founded during the Company rule in India to enhance and further the cause of 'Oriental research' (in this case, research into India and the surrounding regions). It was founded by the philologist William Jones in 1784 in a meeting presided over by Justice Robert Chambers in Calcutta, the then-capital of the Presidency of Fort William.

The British Trust for Ornithology is an organisation founded in 1932 for the study of birds in the British Isles. Max Nicholson was the first treasurer, Bernard Tucker was the secretary and Harry Witherby was an early benefactor and vice-chairman