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George Baker. Both these new Members had become 

 Fellows of the Royal Society in 1762. Dr. Baker was a 

 physician in London, who afterwards was appointed 

 physician to the King and Queen and received a baronetcy. 

 In the Minutes of the General Meeting this year there 

 would seem to be an indication of a recrudescence of 

 the old trouble about the intrusion of strangers into the 

 Club's meetings. Nothing is distinctly visible by way of 

 explanation in the dinner-register, 1 but the General Meeting 

 adopted the following new regulations : 



" Ordered that no Strangers except such as are invited or intro- 

 duced by the President be admitted without leave being obtained 

 from the President, or, in his absence, from the majority of the 

 Members present. 



" That no Member ask for the introduction of more than two 

 Strangers on any one day. 



" That no Stranger be introduced into the Room till it be signifyed 

 to him that leave hath been obtained for his Admission. 



" That the Treasurer be desired to enter in his Book the name of 

 each Stranger and that of the Member who introduced Him. 



" That the Treasurer be desired to read aloud each day as soon 

 after dinner as conveniently may be, the names of the Company 

 present as entered in his Book. 



"That these Resolutions be transcribed fair, and that, a copy of 

 them be hung up on the Outside of the door of the Room in which 

 The Company meet every Thursday by halfe an Hour past two. 



" That a list of the Members be delivered to the Serv* who 

 usually waits upon the Company. 



" N.B. These resolutions were agreed to by Ballot, nem. con. 



" Ordered that notwithstanding the number of Members is re- 

 strained to Forty, the President and the two Secretarys of the 

 Royal Society (if not already of that Number) be additional Members 

 during their continuance in their respective offices." 



In accordance with the resolution that the two Secretaries 

 of the Royal Society should be ex officio members of the Club, 

 Charles Morton, M.D., and Matthew Maty, M.D., who were 

 at this time the two Secretaries, were now added to the 

 membership of the Club. Dr. Maty practised for some 



1 At some of the dinners in the earlier half of the year the proportion of 

 strangers was exceptionally high. On April loth, for example, there were 

 five hosts and nine visitors. One or two Members may have been exceed- 

 ing the legitimate number of guests whom they might invite. 



