| Description | Set of ten postcard size reproductions of the ten stamps produced to celebrate the three hundred and fifitieth anniversary of the founding of the Royal Society. Each stamp portrays an image of the Fellow, and an item which illustrates their work
Fellows shown;
Nicholas Shackleton - micro fossil image
Dorothy Hodgkin - crystallography pattern
Ernest Rutherford - atom inage
Joseph Lister - spray image
Alfred Russel Wallace - oak tree
Charles Babbage - computing engine
Edward Jenner - small pox vaccination
Benjamin Franklin - lightning
Isaac Newton - optics diagram
Robert Boyle - Vacuum pump |