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Presented by 

 Sir John Frederick William Herschel, Bart., 



F.R.S. (1792-1871). 



Astronomer and Mathematician. Senior Wrangler 1813. President Astr. 

 Soc. 1827-32. Active in introduction of modern analysis into England. Made 

 numerous and important astronomical and physical discoveries ; followed up his 

 father's astronomical discoveries, particularly with reference to double stars; 

 writer and discoverer in Sound and Light ; introduced fundamental improvements 

 in photography. Created Baronet 1838. Elected F.R.S. 1813; Copley 

 Medallist 1821. 



By C. A. Jensen. 



Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury (1588-1679). 



Philosopher ; author of works on metaphysics, ethics, and political philosophy. 

 Lived mainly at Chatsworth, where he wrote * The Leviathan '. Mathematical 

 tutor to Charles II when Prince of Wales (1647). 



I. Attributed to William Dobson. Bequeathed by Dr. T. Paget, 1717 



II. Believed to be the portrait by John Baptist Caspars (or Gaspers) presented to 

 the Society by John Aubrey, F.R.S., in 1670, and referred to in Aubrey's Brief 

 Lives (Clark's Ed. 1898, vol. i, p. 354). 



James Holman, R.N., F.R.S. (1786-1857). Lieut. Holman, 1857 



Blind Traveller. Served in the Navy 1798-1811. From 1819 onwards travelled 

 unattended all over the world. Published * Voyage round the World ' and other 

 narratives. Elected F.R.S. 1827. 



By George Chinnery. 



Sir Everard Home, Bart., F.R.S. (1756-1832). Sir E. Home, Bart. 



Surgeon. Pupil of John Hunter ; Master (1813) and first President (1821) of 

 Royal College of Surgeons. Elected F.R.S. 1785 ; contributed 107 papers to 

 the * Philosophical Transactions ' ; Copley Medallist 1807. Eleven times Croonian 

 Lecturer. 



By Thomas Phillips, R.A. 



Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, O.M., Pres.R.S. (1817-1911). Subscribers, 1881 



Botanist and Traveller, and pioneer in the theory of evolution from the side 

 of geographical distribution. Elected F.R.S. 1847; President 1873-8. (See 

 p. 204.) 



By Hon. John Collier. 



Sir William Huggins, K.C.B., O.M., Pres.R.S. (1824-1908). Subscribers, 1905 



Pioneer and Discoverer in astrophysics. Elected F.R.S. 1865 ; President 1900-5. 

 (See p. 205.) 

 By Hon. John Collier. 



John Hunter, F.R.S. (1728-93). Sir E. Home, Bart., 1850 



Surgeon and Comparative Anatomist. Founder of the Huuterian Museum of the 

 R. Coll. of Surgeons. Elected F.R.S. 1767 ; Copley Medallist 1787. 

 By Robert Home. 



(The dog in this picture is mentioned in ' Phil. Trans.', Vol. 77, p. 257.) 



