KKCOHD OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY 



Ti-nitn' of Office. 

 :,-. Hart ......... Nov. 30, 1727-Nov. 30, 1741 



.Jan. 11.17">;>. Fellow of the Coll. Phys. (1687). Afterwards 



..mpanied Duke of Alhemarlo to Jamaica, when* lie collected natural history 



.mien- for fifteen months. Created a baronet by George I, an honour to 



\\hich no Knirlish physician had before attained. Physician-General to the 



IVe^. (oil. Phys. (1727). Secretary R.S. (1693-1712). Founder 



,ic Harden, Chelsea (1721): his museum of natural history and other 



.-[cinuMis purchased by (ioverninent (1754). There are twenty-four papers by 



Sir Han* Sloane in the ' Philosophical Transactions'. 



Martin Folke> ........... Nov. 30, 1741-Nov. 30, 1752 



.'. K;:M>; ,/. June 2K. 1754. M.A. (Camb.), D.C.L. (Oxon.). Appointed 

 Vic,- -Prt-id.-nt of the Koyal Society, by Sir 1. Newton (1723). Pres. Soc. of 

 Antiijua ( ontributed ten papers to the ' Philosophical Transactions '. 



4 v, Karl of Macdesfleld ...... Nov. 30, 1752-Mar. 17, 1764 



'7: <i. .March 17,1704. D.C.L. (Oxon.). Mathematician and Astronomer. In 



:' aided by James Bradley erected an Astronomical Observatory at Shirburn 



Castle, Oxfordshire, with the finest instrumental equipment then existing. His 



tea of personal observations extended from June 4, 1740, to his death. He 



\\a- mainly instrumental in procuring the change of style in 1752, being virtually 



the author of the * Bill for Regulating the Commencement of the Year', which 



pa-~ed the Peers in 1751. He contributed papers to the ' Philosophical Trans- 



action- '. 



irl of Morton (Lord Aberdour) . . Nov. 30, 1764-Oct. 12, 1768 



/. 17<>i' : <l. Oct. J2, 17(5H. Astronomer. Instrumental in founding (1739) the 

 Philosophical (afterwards the Royal) Society of Edinburgh. Was one of the 

 ( <iinmi-viuiiei> of Longitude, and took an active part in the preparations for 

 oliM-rving the Transit of Venus in 1769. One of the earliest Trustees of the 

 British .Mu<eiuii, and Keeper of the Records of Scotland. Contributed several 

 paper> to the ' Philosophical Transactions'. 



(afterward* Sir James) Burrow . . . Oct. 27, 1768-Nov. 30, 1768 



;nl : ,1. N,,v. 5, 17H2. Legal Reporter and Antiquary. Master of the 



( 'rown ( Mlicr, and Senior Hencher of the Inner Temple. Contributed five papers 



on Karth<|iiakes to the IMiilosophical Transactions'. He was elected to the 



chair only to -erve until the ensuing anniversary. 



Klecte.l a -ecund time. July 2, 1772, to till the chair till the following anniversary. 



\\,-l ............ Nov. 30, 1768-July 2, 1772 



I: 17" J 0) : //. July L'. 1772. Politician and Antiquary. M.A. Balliol Coll., Oxford. 



M. P. tor St. Alhan- M7M <;). Joint Secretary to the Treasury (1741-62). A 



low of the Society of Antiquaries (1727). ( Astronomy is indebted to Mr. West 



for the preservation of several manuscript volumes and papers of Flamstet'dV 



-hi. vol. ii. ,,. :,(>). 



fi Priii-lr, Hart ......... Nov. 30, 1772-Nov. 30, 1778 



/.. April lo. I7"7: '/. Jan. l, 17H2. Studied medicine at Leyden, and settled as 

 >iy-irian in Kdinbiirgh. M.I). (Leyden). Appointed (1734) Joint Professor 

 [i. ,.. Metaphy-ics] and Moral Philosophyin Edinburgh. Physician 



