Royal Society post, with 336 Fellows supporting the change and 37 opposing. Following approval by the Council, Marjory Stephenson, Kathleen Lonsdale and Edith Bülbring were elected as Fellows. The Coat of arms of the Royal Society is "in a dexter corner of a shield argent our three Lions of England, and for crest a helm adorned with a crown studded with florets, surmounted by an eagle of proper colour holding in one foot a shield charged with our lions: supporters two white hounds gorged with crowns", with the motto of ""nullius in verba"". John Evelyn, interested in the early structure of the
Terra nullius who claims that in the 15th and 16th century, European writers adopted the "res nullius" concept for territorial conquest. Frost writes: Historians debate whether "first discovery and effective occupation" was applied to territory inhabited by indigenous people that European empires sought to acquire or not. According to Frost: On the other side of the debate are historians which claim that "terra nullius" is a much younger concept, which did not become formalized before the end of the 19th century. Historian Merete Borch writes: These historians claim instead that territorial conquest was justified from natural law — that which has no