Short answers, pulled from the story.
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society is an academic journal published annually by the Royal Society that contains obituaries and life accounts of deceased Fellows. It is one of the primary historical records for the lives and works of notable scientists. All contents are freely available to read.
The journal was established in 1932 under the name Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. It adopted its current title in 1955, at which point volume numbering restarted at 1. Before 1932, obituaries appeared in the Proceedings of the Royal Society.
The memoirs are typically written by a scientist of the next generation, often a former student or close colleague of the subject. In many cases the author is also a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Notable biographies published in the journal include memoirs of Albert Einstein, Alan Turing, Bertrand Russell, Claude Shannon, Clement Attlee, Ernst Mayr, and Erwin Schrödinger.
Each year, around 40 to 50 memoirs of deceased Fellows are collated by the Editor-in-Chief. The journal is published annually.
Malcolm Longair is the current Editor-in-Chief. He succeeded Trevor Stuart in 2016.