

LIST OF PORTRAITS IN oil. 



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 Marcello Malpighi (1628-94). Marcello Malpighi, 1680 



Professor of Medicine in tin- (nivcr-ity of Bologna, 1050. ( hii-f I'i.yHidui 

 and Chamberlain to Innocent Ml (1601); discover.-!- ,,| tin- capillary venel* ; 

 observed the passage of the blood through them in livinir .-mi,,,..,!,. Klectod an 

 Honorary Member U.S. on March 4, 16(58-!). His roll.-ctrd a,rU, dedicate! 

 the Society, were published in London under its au.-pi< .-. 

 By A. M. de Tobar. 



Capt. George Manby, F.R.S. (1765-1854). Madame Barret, 1900 



Inventor of an apparatus for saving life from shipwreck, which was extensively 

 employed. Elected F.R.S. 1831. 

 By S, Lane. 



Gideon Algernon Mantell, LL.D., F.R.S. (1790-1852). W. Mantell, Esq., 1859 



Geologist. Elected F.R.S. 1825; Royal Medallist 1H4'.. Communicated a 

 long series of papers to the ' Philosophical Transaction- . 



By J. J. Masquerier. 



Nevil Maskelyne, D.D., F.R.S. (1732-1811). Mrs. Mervin Storey 



Astronomer. Sent by Royal Society to observe Transit of Venus in 17<;i. 

 Astronomer Royal 1765 ; established the Nautical Almanack 1766. Elected 

 F.R.S. 1768 ; Copley Medallist 1775. Contributed papers to the < Philosophical 

 Transactions'. The diagram reproduced in the picture is from his paper on a 

 prismatic micrometer published in the c Phil. Trans.', Vol. (57. 



By L. F. G. Van der Piiyl (1785). 



Abraham de Moivre, F.R.S. (1667-1754). E. Wortley Montague, Esq. 



Mathematician. Published e Doctrine of Chances ' and ' Miscellanea Analytica ' 

 in 1730 which created ' imaginary trigonometry'. Elected F.R.S. 1697; con- 

 tributed numerous papers to the ' Philosophical Transactions'. Newton, when old, 

 was accustomed to send those who asked him questions about the ' Principia ' to De 

 Moivre. 



By Joseph Highmore. 



Henry More, D.D., F.R.S. (1614-87). Bequeathed by Dr. T. Paget, 1717. 



Theologian. One of the Cambridge Platouists ; published theological and 

 philosophical works ; an original Fellow of the Society ; contributed papers to 

 the ( Philosophical Transactions'. 



Painting of the School of Lely. 



Sir Isaac Newton, Pres.R.S. (1642-1727). 



Elected F.R.S. 1671 ; in 1703 was chosen President, an office to which he was 

 annually re-elected during the remaining twenty-five years of his life. (See p. 201 . ) 



I. By Charles Jervas. Sir Isaac Newton, 1717 



II. By Vander Banck. C. B. Vignoles, Esq., F.R.S., 1841 



III. After Vander Banck, but signed by him. Martin Folkes, Esq., Pres.R.S. 



