right, a mummy; in foreground and beyond, books, skulls, a
microscope, and other emblems of the arts and sciences.
Inscribed in exergue, OMNIS. CELLVLA A. CELLVLA.
Cast. 7 x 7. Æ.

107. Wales, Frederick, Prince of, F.R.S. Bust of the Prince,

l., hair long, in armour, riband and star of the Garter. Leg. FREDERIC WALLIE PRINCEPS. Below, J. A. DASSIER.

Rev. Two genii, among clouds, supporting the Prince's coronet, with plumes and motto.

2.15 E. 108. Watt, James, F.R.S. Bust of Watt, r., with mantle over the shoulders. Behind, in the field, JAMES WATT 1736-1819. Below,

109.

JOSEPH S. WYON S.

Rev. Representation of a steam engine, with sun and planet motion, and inscription below, STEAM ENGINE AS CONSTRUCTED 1.86. E.

BY JAMES WATT.

Head of Watt, l., behind head, I. WATT. On truncation, A. J. STOTHARD.; below, F. L. CHANTREY. R.A. D. Rev. Clio, looking to ., leans in almost upright position against low pillar, on which rests her left hand, with scroll, bearing legend, TO GREAT MEN; in right hand a pen. Below, pub" BY S PARKER LONDON MDCCCXXVII. Right and left, A. J. STOT2.46. E

HARD F. T. STOTHARD R.A. D.

See also Montreal, McGill University.

110. Whitworth, Sir Joseph, Bart., F.R.S. Bust of Whitworth, l., bearded, hair long, crown of head bare, in collar and coat. Leg. SIR JOSEPH WHITWORTH BART.. FRS.. D CL.. LL D BN

DECR XXI

:

18EJP83. Below, ALLAN WYON.

MDCCCIII. On truncation,

Rev. A representation of Whitworth's measuring machine.
Inscription above, A DIFFERENCE OF ONE MILLIONTH OF AN

INCH IS MEASVRED BY VSING FOVR TRVE PLANES IN CONCERT;

beneath, WHITWORTH SCHOLARSHIPS FOUNDED MDCCCLXVIII;
to right, J
2.26. E.

S & A

B WYON.

111. Wray, Daniel, F.R.S. Bust of Wray, r., hair short, in mantle fastened with brooch on the shoulder. Leg. DANIEL. WRAY. XXIV. On truncation, 1726. Below, G

ANGLVS

POZZO F.

AET

Rev. Inscription, NIL ACTVM REPVTANS CVM QVID SVPERESSET

AGENDVM.

2.7. E.

112. Wren, Sir Christopher, P.R.S. Bust of Wren, l., hair long, in vest and loose mantle. Leg.

CHRISTOP WREN. EQVES

Rev. The west front of St. Paul's Cathedral. Upper leg. FAMA LOQVATVR. OPVS Lower leg. INCEPT A.D. 1675. PERFECT A.D. 1711. Ex. AEDES

VNVM

PRO CVNCTIS

S. PAVLI. LOND.; G. D. GAAB SCVLP. Cast.

3.92. Æ.

PRESIDENTS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY.

William, Lord Viscount Brouncker.

Date of
Election.

April 22, 1663

b. 1620 (?); d. April 5, 1684. Adhered to Chas. I, and after the Restoration was appointed by Chas. II Chancellor of the Queen Consort, and Keeper of her Great Seal (1662); one of the Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral (1664), and Master of St. Catherine's Hospital (1681). Mathematician. The first to introduce continued fractions, and to give a series for the quadrature of a portion of the equilateral hyperbola. For portrait see Plate 1.

Years in

Office.

14

Died 1701. M.A. (Oxon.). Secretary of State (1674). For portrait see

Plate 1.

Sir Christopher Wren, Kt.

Nov. 30, 1680

b. Oct. 20, 1632; d. Feb. 25, 1722-3. D.C.L. (Oxon.). Professor of
Astronomy at Gresham College (1657). Savilian Professor at
Oxford (1660). Architect of St. Paul's Cathedral and many
London Churches. For portrait see Plate 1.

Sir John Hoskins, Bart.

2

b. July 23, 1634; d. Sept. 12, 1705. Master in Chancery. Evelyn
describes him as 66
a most learned virtuoso, as well as lawyer."
For portrait see Plate 1.

Sir Cyril Wyche, Kt.

...

Nov. 30, 1683

Died December 29, 1707. M.A., LL.D. (Oxon.). Secretary for Ireland.
Lord Justice (1693).

Samuel Pepys

Dec. 1, 1684

2

b. Feb. 23, 1632–3; d. May 26, 1703. Author of the celebrated Diary. Clerk of the Acts of the Navy (1660). Master of Trinity House (1676). Secretary to the Admiralty (1680). For portrait see Plate 2.

Date of
Election.

John, Earl of Carbery (Lord Vaughan)...... Nov. 30, 1686
Died Jan. 16, 1712-13. For some years Governor of Jamaica. For
portrait see Plate 2.

Thomas, Earl of Pembroke, K.G............. Nov. 30, 1689
b. 1656; d. Jan. 22, 1732-3. First Lord of the Admiralty (1690).
Lord Privy Seal (1692). Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1707).
Lord High Admiral (1708). Mathematician and Antiquary.

Sir Robert Southwell, Kt.

Dec. 1, 1690 b. 1635; d. 1702. Envoy extraordinary to the Court of Portugal (1672). Appointed by Will. III Principal Secretary of State for Ireland. Contributed papers to the 'Philosophical Transactions,' principally on physiological and chemical subjects.

Charles Montague (afterwards Earl of Hali-
fax, K.G.)
Nov. 30, 1695
b. April 16, 1661; d. May 19, 1715. Appointed a lord of the Treasury
(1692), Chancellor of the Exchequer (1694). Aided by Somers,
Locke, Newton, and Halley, he determined to remedy the deprecia-
tion of the currency, and succeeded in passing the Re-coinage Bill
(1696). First Lord of the Treasury (1697).

John, Lord Somers

Years in

Office.

3

1

5

3

b. 1652; d. April 26, 1716. Appointed Solicitor-General upon accession of William and Mary; Attorney-General (1692); Lord Keeper of the Great Seal (1693); Lord Chancellor (1697); Lord President of the Council (1708).

Sir Isaac Newton, Kt..

Nov. 30, 1703

b. Dec. 25, 1642; d. March 20, 1727. Discovered the Binomial Theorem, in the beginning of 1665; the direct method of Fluxions or elements of the differential calculus, Nov., 1665; the unequal refrangibility of the rays of light, Jan., 1666; the integral calculus, May, 1666. Made his first reflecting telescope, 1668. Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, 1669. In 1686 the MS. of the 'Principia' was presented to the Royal Society, and in 1687 it was published. Warden of the Mint (1695); Master of the Mint (1699). Publication of the " Opticks," 1704. Knighted by Queen Anne, 1705.

Sir Hans Sloane, Bart.

Nov. 30, 1727

b. April 16, 1660; d. Jań. 11, 1753. Fellow of the Coll. Phys. in
1687. Shortly afterwards accompanied Duke of Albemarle to
Jamaica, where he collected natural history specimens for fifteen
months. Created a baronet by Geo. I, an honour to which no
English physician had before attained. Physician General to the
Army (1716). Pres. Coll. Phys. (1727). There are twenty-four
papers by Sir Hans Sloane in the 'Philosophical Transactions.'

24

14

b. Oct. 29, 1690; d. June 28, 1754. Appointed Vice-President of the
Royal Society by Sir I. Newton (1723). Pres. Soc. of Antiquaries
(1750). Contributed ten papers to the 'Philosophical Transac-

tions.'

George, Earl of Macclesfield.....

·

Nov. 30, 1752 b. 1697; d. March 17, 1764. Mathematician and Astronomer. In 1739 aided by James Bradley erected an Astronomical Observatory, with the finest instrumental equipment then existing. His series of personal observations extended from June 4, 1740, to his death. He was mainly instrumental in procuring the change of style in 1752, being virtually the author of the "Bill for Regulating the Commencement of the Year," which passed the Peers in 1751. He contributed papers to the Philosophical Transactions.'

James, Earl of Morton (Lord Aberdour)...... Nov. 30, 1764 b. 1702; d. Oct. 12, 1768. Astronomer. Instrumental in founding (1739) the Philosophical (afterwards the Royal) Society of Edinburgh. Was one of the Commissioners of Longitude, and took an active part in the preparations for observing the Transit of Venus in 1769. One of the earliest Trustees of the British Museum, and Keeper of the Records of Scotland. Contributed several papers to the 'Philosophical Transactions.'

......

James (afterwards Sir James) Burrow ... Oct. 27, 1768 b. Nov. 28, 1701; d. Nov. 5, 1782. Legal Reporter and Antiquary. Contributed five papers on Earthquakes to the 'Philosophical Transactions.' He was elected to the chair only to serve until the ensuing anniversary.

James West

Nov. 30, 1768

d. July, 1772. M.A. Balliol Coll., Oxford. M.P. for St. Albans in
1741. Joint Secretary to the Treasury till 1762. A Collector of
Manuscripts, Coins, and Medals, and a Fellow of the Society of
Antiquaries. Astronomy is indebted to Mr. West for the pre-
servation of several manuscript volumes and papers of Flam-
steed's." (Weld, vol. ii, p. 50.)

James (afterwards Sir James) Burrow....

July 2, 1772

See above. Elected a second time to fill the chair till the following anniversary.

Sir John Pringle, Bart.

Nov. 30, 1772

b. April 10, 1707; d. Jan. 18, 1782. Studied medicine at Leyden, and settled as a physician in Edinburgh. Appointed (1734) Joint Professor of Pneumatics [i.e., Metaphysics] and Moral Philosophy in Edinburgh. Physician to the Earl of Stair (1742), and Physician-General to the Forces in Flanders (1744). Afterwards Physician to the Forces ordered to march against the Pretender's

12

4

4

6

Date of
Election.

adherents in Scotland. In 1764 Physician in Ordinary to the Queen.
In 1774 Physician to the King. Author of medical works, espe-
cially on Military Hygiene, and of several papers read before the
Royal Society.

Sir Joseph Banks, Bart.....

Nov. 30, 1778

b. Feb. 13, 1743–44; d. June 19, 1820. In 1766 accompanied Lieut.
Phipps to Newfoundland and Labrador, where he made collec-
tions in Natural History. In 1768 joined Captain Cook in his
first voyage of discovery. In 1772 fitted out and accompanied a
scientific expedition to Iceland, where he made large natural
history collections, and purchased numerous Icelandic books and
manuscripts, all of which he presented to the British Museum.
Baronet, 1781; Privy Councillor, 1797.

William Hyde Wollaston

June 29, 1820

b. Aug. 6, 1766; d. Dec. 22, 1828. Studied for Medicine, and became
a Tancred Fellow at Cambridge. In 1789 settled at Bury St.
Edmunds as a physician. From 1797 to his death a constant con-
tributor to the Philosophical Transactions,' in which appear 39
of his papers in Chemistry, Astronomy, Optics, Mechanics,
Acoustics, Mineralogy, Crystallography, Physiology, Pathology,
and Botany. He was the discoverer of palladium (1804) and
rhodium (1805). In 1828 he described his method for rendering
platinum malleable. He established the Donation Fund of the
Royal Society (see p. 121).

Sir Humphry Davy, Bart.....

Nov. 30, 1820

b. Dec. 17, 1778; d. May 29, 1829. Superintendent of Dr. Beddoes' Pneumatic Institution at Bristol (1798), where he commenced his researches. Director of the Laboratory of the Royal Institution (1801). Invented the Safety-lamp (1815); the first safety-lamp is still in the possession of the Society. In 1823 he communicated to the Royal Society his "Researches on Electro-magnetic Phenomena." He contributed 46 memoirs and lectures to the 'Philosophical Transactions,' and published nine separate works on Science.

Davies Gilbert

Years

in

Office.

41

7

Nov. 6, 1827 3

b. March 6, 1767; d. Nov. 7, 1839. M.P. for Bodmin (1806). “He took a prominent part in parliamentary investigations connected with the arts and sciences" (Dict. Nat. Biog.'). In 1819 he suggested, with success, the establishment of the Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope. He contributed several papers to the 'Philosophical Transactions.'

H.R.H. The Duke of Sussex.

Nov. 30, 1830

Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, sixth son of George III. b. Jan.

27, 1773; d. April 21, 1843. During his tenure of office he con-
stantly presided at all meetings of the Council and Society.