248 RECORD OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY 



Presented by 



Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, Marquis of | M ig rf North ton 

 Northampton, Pres.R.S. (1790-1851). 



Geologist and Mineralogist. Elected F.R.S. 1830, and President 1838-48. 

 (See p. 204.) 



By Thomas Phillips, R.A. 



\ . 

 Henry Oldenburg, F.R.S. (1626-77). Purchased by the Royal Society 



First Secretary R.S. 1663-7; published and edited the 'Transactions' 1664- 

 77, contributing largely to them himself. Conducted extensive correspondence 

 with foreign savants, including Leibniz and Spinoza, which has been of high 

 importance to the scientific history of the time. 



Attributed to John Van Cleef. 



Thomas Paget, D.D. (died 1717). 



A benefactor of the Society, having bequeathed to it property in London. 

 Painting of the School of Kneller by Mary Beale. 



George Peacock, D.D., F.R.S. (1791-1858). Subscribers, 1860 



Mathematician. Senior Wrangler ; with Woodhouse, Herschel, and Babbage 

 introduced analytical methods and the differential notation into the mathematical 

 course ; Lowndean Professor of Astronomy 1836-58 ; Dean of Ely 1839-58. 



By D. Y. Blakiston. 



Samuel Pepys, Pres.R.S. (1633-1703). Samuel Pepys. 



The Diarist and Secretary to the Admirality. Elected F.R.S. 1663; Presi- 

 dent 1684-5. (See p. 201.) 



After Sir Godfrey Kneller. 

 Richard Price, D.D., F.R.S. (1723-91). A. Morgan, Esq., F.R.S., 1876 



Dissenting Divine and writer on moral, political, and economic science, whose 

 works exerted a great political influence ; an intimate friend of Franklin, was 

 invited by Congress in 1778 to transfer himself to America. Elected F.R.S. 1765. 

 Attributed to B. West, P.R.A. 



Sir John Pringle, Bart., Pres.R.S. (1707-82). Sir John Pringle, 1777 



Physician. Elected F.R.S. 1745 ; President 1772. (See p. 202.) 

 By Sir Joshua Reynolds. 



Jesse Ramsden, F.R.S. (1735-1800). Sir E. Home, Bart., F.R.S., 1850 



Practical Optician and Mechanician. Inventor of well-known telescopic eye- 

 piece ; famous as an instrument-maker throughout Europe. Elected F.R.S. 

 1786 ; Copley Medallist 1795. 



By Robert Home. 



John William Strutt, Baron Rayleigh, O.M., Pres.R.S. Subscribers, 1903 



Mathematician and Physicist. Elected F.R.S. 1873; Secretary 1887-96; 

 President 1905-8. (See p. 206.) 



By Sir George Reid, P.R.S.A. 



