| Description | Compilation of a group of 51 scientists assembled in the Library of the Royal Institution. Designed by John Gilbert from portraits and information collected by William Walker; Engraved by William Walker and George Zobel. Published in 1862. Includes the following FRSs; W J Frodsham, Francis Bailey, J L D Rutherford, John Playfair, Nevil Maskelyne, Sir William Herschel, P D R Brown, Thomas Young, Henry Kater, Davies Gilbert, Sir Joseph Banks, Edward Jenner, William Allen, E C Howard, William Smith, W H Wollaston, William Henry, Henry Cavendish, Charles Hatchett, Sir Humphry Davy, John Dalton, Henry Maudalay, Mathew Boulton, Sir M L Brunel, Richard Watson, Joseph Huddart, James Watt, Sir Benjamin Thompson, John Rennie, Sir William Congreve, R M T Thomson, Edward Troughton, Bryan Donkin, Edmond Cartwright, Sir Francis Ronalds. |