Sir Joseph D. Hooker

Date of
Election.

Nov. 30, 1873

b. June 30, 1817. Botanist to Sir J. C. Ross's voyage ("Erebus" and "Terror "). Botanist to the Geological Survey. Expedition to India and the Himalayas (1848); to Syria (1860). Pres. Brit. Assoc. (1868). Botanical Expedition to Marocco (1871) and across America (1877). Director of Royal Gardens at Kew (1865--85).

William Spottiswoode

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Nov. 30, 1878 b. Jan. 11, 1825; d. June 27, 1883. Mathematician, Physicist, and Oriental Scholar. Queen's printer. Lecturer in Mathematics at Balliol College. Meditationes Analyticæ (1847). Numerous papers on the Polarisation of Light and other physical subjects in the Philosophical Transactions,' 'Phil. Mag.,' &c. Pres. Math. Soc. (1871). Pres. Brit. Assoc. (1878).

Thomas Henry Huxley.....

July 5, 1883

b. May 4, 1825; d. June 29, 1895. Lecturer on General Nat. Hist. at the Metropolitan School of Science (1854). Naturalist to the Geological Survey (1855); subsequently Prof. of Biology in the Royal College of Science. Fullerian Professor of Physiology in the Royal Institution (1856-58). Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons (1863–70). Pres. Geolog. Society, and of the Brit. Assoc. (1870). Inspector of Fisheries (1881). Trustee of the Brit. Museum. Member of many Royal and other Commissions.

Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Bart.....

Nov. 30, 1885

b. Aug. 13, 1819. Senior Wrangler (1841). Lucasian Professor of Mathematics (1849). Lecturer on Physics at the Royal School of Mines (1854-60). Pres. Brit. Assoc. (1869). Author of Burnett Lectures on Light (Aberdeen) and Gifford Lectures on Natural Theology (Edinburgh), and of various mathematical and physical papers in the 'Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society,' the 'Philosophical Transactions,' and other scientific serials.

Lord Kelvin (Sir William Thomson)

.. Nov. 30, 1890

b. June 26, 1824. Second Wrangler and first Smith's Prizeman at
Camb. (1845). Prof. of Nat. Philosophy in Glasgow Univ. (1846).
Pres. Brit. Assoc. (1871). Author of numerous papers on heat,
electricity, and other physical subjects in the 'Philosophical
Transactions,' 'Phil Mag.,' &c. Author of Treatise on Natural
Philosophy' in conjunction with Professor Tait. Inventor of the
mirror galvanometer, siphon recorder, a special form of mariner's
compass, and naval sounding machine, and many electrical measur-
ing instruments.

Years in

Office.

5

5

2

5

5

Lord Lister

Date of
Election.

Nov. 30, 1895

b. April 5, 1827. Prof. of Surgery in the Univ. of Glasgow (1860-69).
Prof. of Clinical Surgery in the Univ. of Edinburgh (1869–77).
Pres. Brit. Assoc. (1896). Surgeon Extraord. to the Queen.
Emeritus Prof. of Clinical Surgery in King's Coll., Lond., and
Consulting Surgeon to King's Coll. Hospital.

Years of Office.

Date of Election.

Nov. 30, 1672.
Nov. 30, 1673.

Nov. 30, 1675.

Nov. 30, 1677.

Nov. 30, 1677.

Nov. 30, 1679.

Nov. 30, 1681.

Nov. 30, 1682.

Nov. 30, 1684.
Nov. 30, 1685.

Dec. 16, 1685.

Dec. 16, 1685.

Nov. 30, 1687.

Nov. 30, 1693.

Nov. 30, 1709.

John Evelyn.

Abraham Hill.
Thomas Henshaw.
Nehemiah Grew, M.D.
Robert Hooke.
Thomas Gale, D.D.
Francis Aston.

Robert Plot, LL.D.
William Musgrave.
Tancred Robinson, M.D.
Sir John Hoskyns, Bart.
Thomas Gale, D.D.
Richard Waller.
Hans Sloane, M.D.
John Harris, D.D.
Richard Waller.
Edmund Halley, LL.D.
Brook Taylor, LL.D.
John Machin.
James Jurin, M.D.
William Rutty, M.D.
Cromwell Mortimer, M.D.

Nov. 30, 1710.

Nov. 30, 1713.

Jan. 13, 1714.

Dec. 1, 1718.

Nov. 30, 1721.

Nov. 30, 1727.

Nov. 30, 1730.

Nov. 30, 1747.

Peter Daval.

NAMES OF PERSONS TO WHOM THE MEDALS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY HAVE BEEN AWARDED.

COPLEY MEDAL.