This is a list of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1778.
Fellows
- John Alstroemer (1742âÂÂ1786)
- Wade Toby Caulfeild (1732âÂÂ1800)
- Thomas Cave (1737âÂÂ1780), naturalist
- Henry Dawkins (c.1728âÂÂ1814), MP
- Matthew Dobson (1732âÂÂ1784)
- John Douglas (1721âÂÂ1807), Bishop of Salisbury
- Joseph Else (d. 1780), anatomist
- Henry Charles Englefield (1752âÂÂ1822), antiquary
- Anthony Fothergill (1732âÂÂ1813), physician
- Archibald Campbell Fraser (1736âÂÂ1815), consul and MP
- Thomas de Grey, 2nd Baron Walsingham (1748âÂÂ1818), politician
- Alexander Hay, physician
- Benjamin Heath (d. 1817), Headmaster of Harrow school
- Robert Banks Hodgkinson (c.1721âÂÂ1822)
- William Augustus Howard (d. 1800)
- Charles Peter Layard (1749âÂÂ1903), Dean of Bristol
- John Lockman (c.1721âÂÂ1807), canon
- Joseph Nash (d. 1782)
- Henry Partridge (d. 1803), barrister
- William Preston (1729âÂÂ1789), Bishop of Leighlin and Ferns
- Lancelot Shadwell (d. 1815)
- Robert Boyle-Walsingham (1736âÂÂ1780), Naval officer and MP
- James Watson (1748âÂÂ1796), lawyer
- Richard Worsley (1751âÂÂ1805), MP
- William Wright (1735âÂÂ1819), botanist
- John Wyatt (d. 1797), surgeon
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