208 Record of the Royal Society. 



Years 



Date of in 



Election. Office. 



adherents in Scotland. In 1764 Physician in Ordinary to the Queen. 

 In 1774 Physician to the King. Author of medical works, espe- 

 cially on Military Hygiene, and of several papers read before the 

 Royal Society. 



Sir Joseph Banks, Bart Nov. 30, 1778 41 



J. Feb. 13, 1743-44 ; d. June 19, 1820. In 1766 accompanied Lieut. 

 Phipps to Newfoundland and Labrador, where he made collec- 

 tions in Natural History. In 1768 joined Captain Cook in his 

 first voyage of discovery. In 1772 fitted out and accompanied a 

 scientific expedition to Iceland, where he made large natural 

 history collections, and purchased numerous Icelandic books and 

 manuscripts, all of which he presented to the British Museum. 

 Baronet, 1781 : Privy Councillor, 1797. 



William Hyde Wollaston June 29, 1820 



b. Aug. 6, 1766 ; d. Dec. 22, 1828. Studied for Medicine, and became 

 a Tancred Fellow at Cambridge. In 1789 settled at Bury St. 

 Edmunds as a physician. From 1797 to his death a constant con- 

 tributor to the ' Philosophical Transactions,' in which appear 39 

 of his papers in Chemistry, Astronomy, Optics, Mechanics, 

 Acoustics, Mineralogy, Crystallography, Physiology, Pathology, 

 and Botany. He was the discoverer of palladium (1804) and 

 rhodium (1805). In 1828 he described his method for rendering 

 platinum malleable. He established the Donation Fund of the 

 Royal Society (see p. 121). 



Sir Humphry Davy, Bart Nov. 30, 1820 7 



b. Dec. 17, 1778 ; d. May 29, 1829. Superintendent of Dr. Beddoes' 

 Pneumatic Institution at Bristol (1798), where he commenced his 

 researches. Director of the Laboratory of the Royal Institution 

 (1801). Invented the Safety-lamp (1815) ; the first safety-lamp 

 is still in the possession of the Society. In 1823 he communicated 

 to the Royal Society his " Researches on Electro-magnetic Phe- 

 nomena." He contributed 46 memoirs and lectures to the ' Philo- 

 sophical Transactions,' and published nine separate works on 

 Science. 



Davies Gilbert Nov. 6, 1827 3 



b. March 6, 1767; d. Nov. 7, 1839. M.P. for Bodmin (1806). "He 

 took a prominent part in parliamentary investigations connected 

 with the arts and sciences" (' Diet. Nat. Biog.'). In 1819 he sug- 

 gested, with success, the establishment of the Observatory at the 

 Cape of G-ood Hope. He contributed several papers to the ' Philo- 

 sophical Transactions.' 



H.R.H. The Duke of Sussex Nov. 30, 1830 8 



Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, sixth son of George III. b. Jan. 

 27, 1773 ; d. April 21, 1843. During his tenure of office he con- 

 stantly presided at all meetings of the Council and Society. 



