Regiæ Societati dono dedit,
& perpetuo sacram esse voluit.
Huic,
Pro eximia erga se liberalitate, Societas
Regia tabulam hanc, devotæ
Mentis testem, fixit;
Præside Josepho Williamson,
Equite Aurato.
A. D. M.DC.LXXIX.
Besides this Arundelian or Norfolk library, which takes up a large room, another curious and valuable collection was left the society in the year 1715, by their Secretary Francis Aston, Esq; which together with the numerous benefactions of the works of the learned members, in all faculties, but more especially in natural and experimental philosophy, amount to above 3600, and are placed in glass cases in another room.