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the precaution of consulting every leading man in 
the room respecting the choice of the Bishop of 
Durham for our honorary member, and at length 
proposed him. He was elected unanimously. I im- 
mediately wrote him word of it, dating it from the 
Society's rooms. He returned me an immediate an- 
swer expressive of his thanks for the honour done 
him, but sent it to my house in Berners Street ;—the 
consequence was, that I did not receive it till my 
return home; so that I could not deliver his thanks. 
There were nearly thirty members present. We sat 
down to dinner about fifty-three: among others 
were present the Bishop of Winchester, Lord Stan- 
ley, Sir Nash Grose, Sir George Staunton, Sir 
Thomas Frankland, Mr. Poulter, Mr. Woodward, 
D. Turner, Davies of Trinity College, &c. &c. I was 
sorry to see a falling-off of some of our old mem- 
bers,—Dicksonand Fairbairn and Francillon,—none 
of whom were present in the morning or at dinner. 
Hoy was there. We drank the usual toasts,—yours 
of course; when I took an opportunity of repeating 
what I had before said in the morning respecting 
your utter inability to attend, your great regret at 
this hindrance, which now occurred for the first tame 
since the formation of the Society. 
TheVice Presidents were drank of course.—After 
I had returned thanks in a short speech, Sir Nash 
Grose would give my health individually, as Presi- 
dent for the day. It was rather hard to return thanks 
twice; however, I somehow contrived it. I returned 
Sir Nash’s compliment by giving, ‘The Laws of Old 
England, and our very able Ministers of those Laws.” 
