title: List of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1879
text: # List of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1879
  
  Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1879.
  
  ## Fellows
  
  * John Anderson (1833–1900)
  * Miles Joseph Berkeley (1803–1889)
  * Henry Bessemer (1813–1898)
  * Alexander Crum Brown (1838–1922)
  * Walter Lawry Buller (1838–1906)
  * Francis Stephen Bennet Francois de Chaumont (1833–1888)
  * Richard Assheton Cross (1823–1914)
  * George Howard Darwin (1845–1912)
  * Joseph David Everett (1831–1904)
  * George Downing Liveing (1827–1924)
  * George Matthey (1825–1913)
  * George John Romanes (1848–1894)
  * Arthur Schuster (1851–1934)
  * Harry Govier Seeley (1839–1909)
  * Benjamin Williamson (1827–1916)
  * Thomas Wright (1809–1884)
  
  ## Foreign members
  
  * Arthur Auwers (1838–1915)
  * Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau (1810–1892)
  * Luigi Cremona (1830–1903)
  * Georg Hermann Quincke (1834–1924)
  * Theodor Ambrose Hubert Schwann (1810–1882)
  * Jean-Servais Stas (1813–1891)
  