[3] The lodge meets at Bateman Street Masonic Hall,[4] with the lodge's badge or standard a combination of Isaac Newton's coat of arms and the University of Cambridge's coat of arms.
[7] Members of the university had previously joined Scientific Lodge,[8] the oldest in Cambridge.
In 1961 the centenary meeting of the lodge was held at Cambridge Guildhall attended by the then Grand Master, Roger Lumley, 11th Earl of Scarbrough, who was made an honorary member of the lodge.
[5] The lodge, as well as its equivalent Apollo University Lodge at the University of Oxford, enjoys the right to initiate matriculated members of the university from the age of 18, whereas other Lodges in England and Wales are restricted to candidates aged 21 or older, except by special permission.
859 is a Holy Royal Arch Chapter associated with the lodge.