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often displayed a vivid and luminous imagination. He en- 

 joyed the friendship of D'Alembert, Diderot, Condorcet and 

 other Encyclopedists. The Royal Society next year elected 

 him a Fellow, and also the other foreign guest, Conte 

 Giovanni Battista Carburis, who was one of the foremost 

 physicians of his day, and taught for twenty years in the 

 faculty of medicine at Turin. With the view of making 

 the acquaintance of the most eminent men in his profession 

 he visited France, Holland, England and Finland. Having 

 acquired an European reputation he wished in 1770 to 

 return to his native Cephalonia, when the King of Sardinia's 

 daughter, who had married the Comte d'Artois, prevailed 

 on him to accompany her to France as her physician, and 

 Louis XVI. adopted him as physician to the whole royal 

 family. He came to London and dined with the Club on 

 the same evening with the Neapolitan Ambassador. Next 

 spring he again appeared. Returning eventually to Italy 

 he became Professor of Physiology at Padua, where he 

 died in 1801. 



Among the English visitors at the dinners may be men- 

 tioned the second Earl of Egmont, who, having sat first in 

 the Irish and then in the British House of Commons, during 

 a period of more than thirty years, had been raised to the 

 peerage and was now first Lord of the Admiralty. His 

 father had been a Fellow of the Royal Society, and he was 

 elected to the same position on 2ist June of this year and 

 the week following dined with the Club. Another Fellow 

 elected on I3th December and entertained by the Club next 

 week was the fourth Lord Trevor, a Fellow of All Souls 

 College, who had been minister at the Hague. It may be 

 noted that Dr. Mark Akenside, who, as already men- 

 tioned, had for years been a frequent guest and then an 

 assiduous member of the Club, but had been balloted out 

 for non-attendance during twelve months, dined once again 

 this year as a visitor. 



1765. The Annual General Meeting of the Club was this 

 year held on July 25th, when the following members were 

 present : 



