1734 Dr. John Arbuthnot, Mearn-shire; medicine, coins, politics.

1739 Dr. Edmund Halley; natural philosophy, astronomy, navigation.

Dr. Richard Bentley, Yorkshire; classical learning, criticism.

1744 Alexander Pope, London; poems, letters, translation of Homer.

1745 Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dublin; poems, politics and letters.

1746 Colin McLaurin, Argyleshire; Algebra, View of Newton's Philosophy.

1748 James Thomson, Roxburghshire; Seasons, and other poems, five tragedies.

Rev. Dr. Isaac Watts, Southampton; logic, philosophy, psalms, hymns, sermons, &c. Dr. Francis Hutcheson, Ayrshire; System of Moral Philosophy.

1750 Rev. Dr. Conyers Middleton, Yorkshire ; life of Cicero, &c.

Andrew Baxter, Old Aberdeen, metaphysics, and natural philosophy.

1751 Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke, Surrey; philosophy, metaphysics and politics.

Dr. Alexander Monro, Edinburgh, anatomy of the human body.

1754 Dr. Richard Mead, London; on poison, plague, small-pox, medicine, precepts.

Henry Fielding, Somersetshire; Tom Jones,
Joseph Andrews.

1757 Colley Cibber, London; 25 tragedies and comedies.

1761 Thomas Sherlock, bishop of London; 69 sermons, &c.

Benjamin Hoadley, bishop of Winchester; sermons and controversy.

1761 Samuel Richardson, London; Grandison, Clarissa, Pamela.

Rev. Dr. John Leland, Lancashire; Answer to Deistical Writers.

1765 Rev. Dr. Edward Young; Night Thoughts, and other poems, 3 tragedies.

Robert Simson, Glasgow; Conic Sections,
Euclid, Apollonius.

1768 Rev. Lawrence Sterne; 45 sermons, Sentimental Journey, Tristram Shandy.

1769 Robert Smith, Lincolnshire; harmonics and

optics.

1770 Rev. Dr. Jortin; Life of Erasmus, Ecclesiastical History, and Sermons.

Dr. Mark Akenside, Newcastle upon Tyne; poems.

Dr. Tobias Smollet, Dumbartonshire; History of England, novels, translations. 1771 Thomas Gray, Professor of Modern History, Cambridge; poems.

1773 Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield; letters.

George Lord Lyttleton, Worcestershire;
History of England.

1774 Oliver Goldsmith; poems, essays, and other pieces.

1775 Dr. John Hawkesworth; essays.

1776 David Hume, Merse; History of England;

essays.

James Ferguson, Aberdeenshire; astronomy.

1777 Samuel Foote, Cornwall; plays.

1779 David Garrick, Hereford; plays.

William Warburton, bishop of Gloucester; Divine Legation of Moses, and various other works.

1780 Sir William Blackstone, judge of the court

of Common Pleas, London; Commentaries on the laws of England.

Dr. John Fothergill, Yorkshire; philosophy and medicine.

James Harris; Hermes, Philological Inquiries, and Philosophical Arrangements.

1782 Thomas Newton, bishop of Bristol, Litchfield; Discourses on the Prophecies, and other works.

Sir John Pringle, Bart. Roxburghshire;
Diseases of the Army.

1783 Dr. Wm. Hunter, Lanerkshire; anatomy. Dr. Benjamin Kennicot; Hebrew version of the Bible, theological tracts.

1784 Dr. Thomas Morell, editor of Ainsworth's Dictionary, Hedericus's Lexicon, and some Greek tragedies.

Dr. Samuel Johnson, Litchfield; English
Dictionary, biography, essays, poetry.

1785 William Whithead, Poet Laureat; poems and plays.

Rev. Richard Burn, LL. D. author of the Justice of Peace, Ecclesiastical Law, &c. Richard Glover, Esq. Leonidas, Medea, &c. 1786 Jonas Hanway, travels, miscellanies. 1787 Dr. Robert Lowth, bishop of London; criticism, divinity, grammar.

1788 James Stuart, Esq. celebrated by the name of "Athenian Stuart."

Thomas Gainsborough, Esq. the celebrated painter.

Thomas Sheridan, Esq. English Dictionary, works on education, elocution, &c,

William Julius Mickle, Esq. translator of the Lusiad.

1789 Dr. Wm. Cullen; Practice of Physic, Materia Medica, &c.

1790 Benjamin Franklin, Esq. Boston, New England; electricity, natural philosophy, miscellanies.

Rev. Thomas Warton, B. D. Poet Laureat;
History of English poetry, poems.

Dr. Adam Smith, Scotland: Moral Senti-
ments, Inquiry into the wealth of Nations.
John Howard, Esq. Middlesex; Account
of Prisons and Lazarettos, &c.

1791 Rev. Dr. Richard Price, Glamorganshire; morals, providences, civil liberties, annuities, reversionary payments, sermons, &c. Dr. Thomas Blacklock, Annandale; poems, Consolations from natural and revealed Religion.

Sir Joshua Reynolds, Devonshire, President of the Royal academy of painting; Discourses on painting, delivered before the academy.

1793 John Hunter, Esq. Surgeon Extraordinary to the King, and Surveyor General to the Army; anatomy.

1794 Edward Gibbon, Esq. History of the Roman Empire, &c.

James Bruce, Esq. Kinnaird; travels into
Abyssinia.

Sir William Jones, Esq. Law, Arabic and
Persian Literature, &c.

1795 Josiah Wedgewood, Esq. potteries of Staffordshire.

James Boswell, Esq. Life of Dr. Johnson, &c.

Dr. Andrew Kippis; biography and divinity. 1796 James Macpherson, Esq. Ossian, State Papers, &c.

Sir W. Chambers, architect of Somerset-place.

1796 Dr. George Campbell, Aberdeen; Philosophy of Rhetoric, New Translations of the Gospels, &c.

Dr. Thomas Reid, Glasgow; metaphysics. 1797 The Right Hon. Horace Walpole, Earl of Oxford; Royal and Noble Authors, Anecdotes of Painting, and Miscellaneous Writings.

Rev. William Mason; poetry, and Memoirs
of Gray.

Edmund Burke, Esq. stateseman, orator,
and political writer.

Joseph Wright, Esq. Derby; painter.

Dr. Wm. Enfield; theological, miscellaneous,
&c.

Dr. Richard Brocklesby; physician.
John Wilkes, Esq. politics.

1798 Thomas Sandby, Esq. architecture.

Dr. Richard Farmer; Literary and Topo-
graphical Antiquities, Commentator on
Shakspeare, &c.

Thomas Pennant, Esq. natural history and
antiquities.

William Wales, Esq. mathematics.

1799 William Melmoth, Esq. Fitzosborne's Let

ters, &c.

George Stephens, F. R. and A. S. S. Com-
mentator on Shakspeare.

John Strange, LL.D. F.R.S. and F.S. A.
several papers in the Archeologia.

Hon. Daines Barrington, F. R. and A. S. S.
observations on the Statutes.

J. Norbury, Fellow of Eton College; trans-
lation into Greek verse of Gray's Elegy.
Sir Francis Buller, Bart. one of the Judges
of the court of Common Pleas; Nisi Prius.