This should be cool to poke in to some of their oldest stuff to see what was being debated.
http://royalsocietypublishing.org/journals
http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/26/0355208/350-years-of-science-online
http://royalsocietypublishing.org/journals
http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/10/26/0355208/350-years-of-science-online