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his membership of the Club, for he died in 1768. Dr. 

 Hadley was Professor of Chemistry at Cambridge, and Fellow 

 of Queen's College. He became F.R.S. in 1758. Dr. 

 Crusius, who had frequently been a guest of the Club, was 

 headmaster of Charterhouse School. He was elected F.R.S. in 

 1754. Dr. Chandler was a nonconformist clergyman who had 

 written theological pamphlets and sermons. He became 

 a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1754. Earl Verney had 

 been elected into the Royal Society in 1758 and had often 

 dined with the Club as a visitor. J. L. Petit belonged to 

 the medical profession and had been elected into the Royal 

 Society in 1729. 



As already referred to (p. 74), it would seem from the 

 weekly dinner-registers to have been a common practice 

 among the members of the Club to invite to the dinners 

 candidates for admission into the Royal Society. The 

 approval and comradeship of the members would no doubt 

 be useful in promoting the success of their candidature. 

 And it would appear to have been also customary for 

 different members in succession to invite a candidate for 

 admission into the Club during many months previous to 

 the election day, as if to test his " clubbableness " before 

 adopting him as a member. 



It is interesting to notice in these registers the evidence 

 that Henry Cavendish was gradualty throwing off his timidity 

 in the Club. In the first year after his election he attended 

 sixteen times. In this, the second year, he was present at 

 twenty-eight dinners and at two of these the names of his 

 father and him are placed together on the register. 



Few guests of distinction dined with the Club this year. 

 It is deserving of note that Nathaniel Bliss, the Savilian 

 Professor of Geometry at Oxford, who was not an infrequent 

 guest during the summer, was this year appointed successor 

 to Bradley at the Royal Observatory. His tenure of this 

 office, however, proved brief, for he died in 1764. It should 

 be mentioned that the two visitors at the Anniversary Meet- 

 ing of the Club this year were the new Astronomer Royal 

 and the eminent astronomer who was so soon to succeed 



