Meeting of the Royal Society in Somerset House. The hall is decorated with portraits of members including John Evelyn, Sir Isaac Newton, Sir Humphrey Davy, Sir Martin Folkes, etc. Steel engraving by Henry Melville after an illustration by Fairholt from London Interiors, Their Costumes and Ceremonies, Joshua Mead, London, 1841.

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