Society of the Holy Cross particularly over the interpretation of scripture and the ordination of women. As of October 2017 there are over 1,000 members of the society organised into provinces for England and Scotland, the Americas, Wales and Australasia, each under a provincial master reporting to an international master general. There are also some members in the Lutheran Church of Sweden. The current master general of the society is Fr Nicolas Spicer SSC, also the provincial master for England and Scotland, who resides in England. The brethren are united together in their keeping of a common rule of life, which bears much in common
The Philatelic Society of India society and in 1997 the Society celebrated its centenary with a display in Bombay titled "Centipex '97" at which a red Scinde Dawk and other rarities of Indian philately were exhibited. India Post also issued two commemorative stamps to mark the centenary. This is a partial list of early members of the society: The society had a strong publishing record with Martin and Smythies' "The Four Annas Lithographed Stamps of India, 1854-55" and L.E. Dawson's "The One Anna & Two Annas Postage Stamps of India, 1854-55" both winning the Crawford Medal from the Royal Philatelic Society London (1932 and 1950