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Mr. Samuel Galton, junior, his son. 
Dr. Stoke, a physician of Birmingham. 
Among the guests known to have been entertained were the 
following distinguished men of science and letters: 
Josiah Wedgwood, F.R.S. (1730-1795), the well-known potter 
and inventor of the ware called by his name. 
Sir Joseph Banks, F.R.S. (1743-1820), botanist, President of 
the Royal Society. 
Sir William Herschel, F.R.S. (1738-1822), the most distin- 
guished astronomer of the century. 
John Smeaton (1724-1792), civil engineer, builder of Eddy- 
stone Lighthouse. 
Dr. Samuel Parr (1747-1825), eminent English scholar and 
critic. 
The Rev. Hugh Blair, D.D. (1718-1800), author of ‘‘ Lectures 
on Rhetoric.” Professor in the University of Kdinburgh. 
Adam Afzelius (1750-1836), Swedish botanist. He visited 
England in 1789. 
Dr. Daniel C. Solander, F.R.S. (1736-1782), Swedish Natu- 
ralist and physician, Librarian British Museum. 
Jean André de Lue (1727-1817), Swiss natural philosopher 
and geologist. . 
Dr. Pieter Camper, F.R.S. (1722-1789) Dutch naturalist 
and anatomist, 
Mr. John Wilkinson, iron-master, brother-in-law to Dr. 
Priestley. 
Mr. William Bewly, a surgeon and apothecary of Norfolk, 
author of letters on the chemistry of gases. A friend of Dr. 
Priestley. 
Mr. Collins, an American ‘‘ rebel.” 
Dr. Henry Moyes, of Edinburgh, lecturer on chemistry, 
though blind. He emigrated to America in 1785. 
Mr. M. Robinson Boulton, son of Matthew. 
The Rev. Joseph Barrington, Roman Catholic priest of 
Oscott, a small hamlet, seven or eight miles from Birmingham. 
Author of several historical works. 
Of the original members, two, Small and Baskerville, died in 
1775. Dr. Priestley did not become a member until 1780, and, 
Murdock being so much younger, must have joined still later. 
Apparently, the society kept no records of its meetings, and but 
scanty notices of its proceedings can be gathered from the corre- 
spondence of its members. 
We have given 1766 as the date of the commencement of these 
social gatherings, but it is probable that they occurred still 
earlier, for when James Watt visited Soho in 1768 on his way 
from London to Glasgow, Dr. Small, Dr. Darwin, and Capt. 
