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the purpose intended, and that the affixing of springs 

 to carriages, which was part of his scheme, greatly 

 facilitated their draft. He was elected an honorary 

 member of the Society on the 29th of June 18 15. 

 As early as the years 1767 and 1769 R. L. Edgeworth 

 had obtained medals of the Royal Society of Arts for 

 inventions. 1 



During the first quarter of the nineteenth century, 

 a number of remarkable names appear among those 

 admitted to honorary membership of the Society, while 

 some of the newly admitted ordinary members were 

 conspicuous in various ways. In may be appropriate 

 to close this chapter with some mention of them. 

 Citizen Goldberg, The Hague, minister of Political 

 Economy to the Batavian Republic ; Citizen Coquebert 

 de Moubray, commissary of the French Embassy ; 

 Prince Barintrinsky, chamberlain to the Emperor of 

 Russia ; Humphry Davy ; Thomas William Coke, 1 

 (Holkham Hall, Norfolk) ; the Earl of Sheffield ; the 

 Archdukes John and Lewis, of Austria ; the Right 

 Hon. Nicholas Vansittart, Chancellor of the Ex- 

 chequer ; the Grand Duke Michael of Russia ; Sir 

 Benjamin Bloomfield (2) ; Sir Michael Seymour, bart., 

 k.c.b. ; The Princes Nicholas and Paul Esterhazy, 

 Count Joseph Esterhazy, Prince Victor Metternich, 

 and Chevalier de Floretti were elected as " foreigners 

 of high scientific attainments, and for repeated acts 

 of attention to the Society " ; the Right Hon. George 

 Canning was also elected. 



Among those who became members of the Society 

 during the same period were the Lord Chief Justice of 

 Ireland (afterwards Lord Downes) (3), the Rev. Charles 

 Elrington, f.t.c.d. (4), Sir William Betham (5), Lord 

 Kilmaine, who was a regular attendant, and frequently 

 1 History of the Society \ 247, &c. 



