APPENDIX 



The HUGHES MEDAL, founded in 1900 under the will of D. E. 

 Hughes, F.R.S., is awarded annually, without restriction of sex or 

 nationality, for original discovery in the physical sciences, partic- 

 ularly electricity and magnetism or their applications. It is 

 struck in gold. 



THE LIBRARY 



On the 2nd January 1666-1667, Mr. Henry Howard (afterwards 

 sixth Duke of Norfolk) presented the Royal Society with " the 

 Library of Arundel House, to dispose thereof as their property, 

 desiring only that in case the Society should come to faile, it might 

 return to Arundel House ; and that this inscription, Ex dono Henrici 

 Howard Norfolciensis, might be put upon every book given them." 

 " The Society," it is added, "received this noble donation with all 

 thankfullnesse, and ordered that Mr. Howard should be registered 

 as a benefactor." This gift may be regarded as the nucleus of the 

 Society's Library. 



A considerable part of the Arundel Library came originally from 

 the collection of Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary, a portion of 

 which, after his death, passed into the possession of the celebrated 

 Bilibald Pirckheimer, of Nuremberg, who died in 1530. This 

 portion was purchased by Howard's grandfather, Thomas, Earl of 

 Arundel, during his embassy at Vienna ; and it consisted of a great 

 number of printed books and many rare and valuable manuscripts.* 

 It may be mentioned that several of the books, which are still in 

 the Society's possession, contain Bilibald Pirckheimer's book-plate, 

 designed by Albrecht Diirer. 



An entry in the Council Minutes of May 18, 1681, shows that the 

 Arundel Library was at that time kept separate from the other books, 

 and it probably remained so for many years. The volumes were 

 afterwards, however, distributed according to subjects, and in 



1 Weld's History, Vol. I. p. 196. 

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