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Presented by 

 Executors of John 

 Samuel Chandler, D.D., F.R.S. (1693-1766). Chandler, Esq., F.R.S., 1781 



An eminent Dissenting Theologian. Elected F.R.S. 1754. 

 By M. Chamberlain. 



Sir John Chardin, F.R.S. (1643-1713). G. Handford, Esq., 1887 



Traveller. Published notes of his travels as a jewel merchant in Persia and 

 India. Protestant refugee to England 1681. Knighted 1681. Envoy to Holland 

 1684. Elected F.R.S. 1682. 



By Michael Dahl (doubtful). 



King Charles II, Founder of the R.S. (1630-85). King Charles II (?) 



Founded also the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and the Royal Mathematical 

 School of Christ's Hospital. (See Chapter I.) 



Painted in the School of Lely. 



John George Children, F.R.S. (1777-1852). Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S., 1873 



Electrician and Chemist. Elected F.R.S. 1807 ; Secretary 1826. 

 By S. Pearce (doubtful). 



Daniel Colwall, F.R.S. (died 1690). D. Colwall, Esq. 



Elected F.R S. 1663; Treasurer 1665-79; inaugurated the Society's 'Reposi- 

 tory' 1666. 



A copy after an unknown artist. 



William Clift, F.R.S. (1775-1849). Mrs. Owen, 1858 



Naturalist and Osteologist. Conservator of the Hunterian Museum 1799-1844. 

 Elected F.R.S. 1823, and served on the Council. Contributed papers to the 

 ( Philosophical Transactions'. 



By Henry Schmidt. 



Taylor Combe, F.R.S. (1774-1826). Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S., 1873 



Numismatist. Keeper of Coins (1803) and Antiquities (1807-26) in British 

 Museum. Elected F.R.S. 1806. 



Painter unknown. 



Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543). Dr. Wolf, 1776 



Founder of Astronomy. Professor of Mathematics at Rome. His treatise 

 ' De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium ' which discloses the ' Copernican System ' 

 was published in 1543. 



Copy after an older portrait. 



Sir William Crookes, O.M., F.R.S. Subscribers, 1911 



Chemist and Physicist. Discoverer of Thallium, and of mechanical and 

 electrical phenomena of rarefied gases. Copley, Royal, and Davy Medallist, and 

 three times Bakerian Lecturer. Elected F.R.S. 1863 ; For. Sec. R.S. 1908- . 



By E. A. Walton. 



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