1754 A punctilious Treasurer 47 



migration in summer or autumn from London to foreign 

 parts, nor even to quarters inland or to retreats by 

 the sea. 



1754. At the Annual General Meeting held on July 25, 

 1754, with the Earl of Macclesfield in the chair, there were 

 sixteen other members present, together with two guests, 

 one of whom was Professor Bradley. The Treasurer re- 

 ported that his disbursements since the last Annual General 

 Meeting had been 2 133. 6d., leaving in his hands a 

 balance of 2 145. rod. 



Although Lord Macclesfield had taken the chair at the 

 first Club-dinner after his election as President of the Royal 

 Society, and for more than eighteen months had presided 

 over all the meetings at which he was present, the punctilious 

 Treasurer took occasion of the death of the late President to 

 have the Chairmanship of the Club formally sanctioned by 

 a vote of the members, and submitted to the Annual General 

 Meeting the following statement, the Earl being at the time 

 actually in the chair : " The Treasurer acquainted the 

 Societ}^ that Martin Folkes Esq. our late worthy President 

 was dead, and that this being Election-day, the Society 

 should chuse some other Gent ln for that office, accordingly 

 the Right Hon ble The Earl of Macclesfield was desired to 

 accept of that Office, which he did in a very Genteel 

 manner." 



At the same meeting two members who had not attended 

 during the previous twelve months were declared to be no 

 longer members of this Society. Two new members were 

 elected to fill the vacancies thus caused, together with a 

 third to fill the vacant place arising from the death of the 

 late President, viz. Paul Whichcote, Dr. Robert Watson 

 (F.R.S. 1750), and Dr. Charlton Wollaston (F.R.S. 1756). 

 It may be remarked that one of the two ejected members, 

 who had belonged to the Club since 1748, was never elected 

 into the Royal Society, that Dr. Wollaston was not so elected 

 until two years after he joined the Club, and that Paul 

 Whichcote, one of the new members, never became F.R.S. 1 



1 There was a baronet of the same name who became F.R.S. in 1674. 



