| Provenance | Presented by an unknown donor, before 1896. The chair was in the Royal Society’s care in 1896, when it was one of several items of furniture requested for exhibition at Bethnal Green: ‘Sir Isaac Newton’s chair; chair presented by Sir Joseph Banks (1750), the President’s chair, and the Boyle air-pump…’, Letter, Arthur James Richens Trendell, Science and Art Loan Department, South Kensington, to Lord Lister, Royal Society. Royal Society Miscellaneous Manuscripts MM/17/102; with supplementary letters NLB/12/820, NLB/13/54 and 184, and NLB/14/447. |