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. 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