30 Annals of the Philosophical Club 



Supervisor of the Statistical Department of the Board of Trade, then 

 of its Railway Department, and lastly Joint Secretary of the Board. 

 He married a daughter of Abraham Ricardo, author of the Principles 

 of Political Economy and Taxation, and died at Tunbridge Wells, on 

 Sept. 3rd, 1852, from blood-poisoning caused by a gnat's sting. 



At the meeting on May 25th, the discussion on the Report 

 of the Committee (see page 27) was resumed, and it was 

 resolved that the Presidents of the societies cultivating 

 different branches of Natural Knowledge should be asked 

 to request the Government to grant apartments to them, 

 or such other societies as it should think fit, as trustees for 

 carrying out their objects. 



At the meeting on June 22nd, the members considered 

 what societies should send their Presidents to form the 

 deputation named in the above-mentioned report, a doubt 

 having arisen about the inclusion of the Chemical Society, 

 because it had not a charter. On it being explained that 

 this was in the way of being remedied, the Club resolved 

 that the societies represented should be the Royal, the 

 Linnean, the Geological, the Astronomical, the Chemical, 

 and the Royal Asiatic. 



The Club preferred not to enter on the discussion of that 

 part of the Committee's second recommendation which 

 concerned the locale of the apartments, but passed on to 

 the third recommendation, and appointed Lt.-Col. Sabine, 

 Mr. Owen, and Mr. Grove to be members of a Committee to- 

 wait on the above-named Presidents, represent to them 

 the advantages of the proposed juxtaposition, and request 

 their co-operation in bringing it about. 



1849. At the meeting on April 3Oth, the second anniver- 

 sary, the four vacancies, caused by the absence from England 

 of Major Cautley, Dr. Falconer, Dr. Hooker, and Sir J. 

 Richardson, were filled by the election of Dr. H. Lloyd, 

 Dr. Lyon Playfair, the Earl of Rosse, and Lord Wrottesley. 



Of the four new members, DR. HUMPHRY LLOYD was son of a 

 Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy in Trinity 

 College, Dublin, and was born in that city on April i6th, 1800. 

 After a distinguished University career, he obtained a fellowship, 

 and in 1831 succeeded his father as Professor, devoting himself 



