David Herrliberger (1697-1777) was a Swiss engraver and publisher.
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(http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Herrliberger [accessed 13 April 2017]).
Thomas Fane, 6th Earl of Westmorland (1683-1736) was a member of the House of Lords. He served as a Privy Counsellor and held several other governmental posts.
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(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Fane,_6th_Earl_of_Westmorland [accessed 13 April 2017]).
Samuel Kölesérius de Keres-Eer (1663-1732) was a physician and served as Government Secretary of the Principality of Transylvania. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1729 upon the proposal of Sloane and others.
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(https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27keres-eer%27%29 [accessed 13 April 2017]).
Charles François de Cisternay du Fay (1698-1739) was a French chemist and Conservateur du Jardin des Plantes à Paris. His research into electricity was published in the Philosophical Transactions in 1734. Du Fay became a member of l’Académie des sciences in 1733.
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(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_François_de_Cisternay_du_Fay [accessed 14 April 2017]).
Jean Louis Petit (1674-1750) was a Parisian surgeon and inventor of the tourniquet. In 1715 he became a member of l’Académie des sciences and was named director of l’Académie royale de chirurgie when it was founded in 1731.
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(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Louis_Petit [accessed 14 April 2017]).
James Augustus Blondell (1666-1734) was born in Paris and took his MD at Leyden in 1692. He was admitted a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians in 1711. Blondell authored two works: ‘The Strength of Imagination of Pregnant Women Examined’ of 1727 and ‘The Power of the Mother’s Imagination over the Foetus Examined’ in 1729.
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(http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/447 [accessed 14 April 2017]).
Domenico Silvio Passionei (1682-1761) was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Pope Innocent XIII made him Archbishop of Ephesos and between 1730 and 1738 he was Nuncio in Vienna. Passionei served as Librarian of the Vatican.
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(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domenico_Silvio_Passionei [accessed 14 April 2017]).
Sir Thomas Dereham (c. 1678-1739) was a British expatriate and Roman Catholic who lived in Italy. He had a close association with the Royal Society.
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(https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27dereham%27%29 [accessed 12 April 2017]).
Joseph de Seytres, Marquis de Caumont (1688-1745) was a collector of books, manuscripts, medals, and antiquities. He corresponded with Voltaire and contributed to the Journal de Trévoux. He was elected a Member of l’Académie des inscriptions in 1736, a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1740, and a Member of l’Académie des Arcades de Rome in 1743
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http://data.bnf.fr/11895598/joseph_de_seytres_caumont accessed 11th April 2017
Antoine de Jussieu (1686-1758) was a French naturalist and physician who, like Sloane, studied at Montpellier. He replaced Professor of Botany Joseph Pitton de Tournefort at the Jardin du Roi in Paris when the latter died in 1708. De Jussieu was admitted as a member of l’Academie des sciences in 1711 and was responsible for the introduction of coffee to the Antilles in 1720.
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http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_de_Jussieu accessed 30th March 2017