1768 Josiab Golebrooke and Angling i o i 



and one of the oldest and most respected Fellows of the 

 Royal Society, was naturally chosen to fill the Chair, both at 

 the Society and at the Club, until in the course of a few weeks 

 the Society would at its anniversary on St. Andrew's day 

 elect a new President. The same compliment was paid to 

 him in 1772 when the Presidency of the Society again 

 became vacant between two anniversaries. 



Among the points of interest secured by the ruling of 

 the General Meeting in 1766, that the names of the visitors 

 should be recorded together with those of the members by 

 whom they were invited, is the revelation of the hospitable 

 assiduity of the zealous Treasurer. Year after year, besides 

 looking after the general well-being of the Club, he was one 

 of its most devoted members in the invitation of acceptable 

 strangers. At most dinners he provided one visitor, often 

 two. The dinner-lists for this year show that he entertained 

 sixteen guests, some of them several times. They included 

 the Earl of Huntingdon, the Bishop of St. David's, the Bishop 

 of Carlisle, Mr. James West, F.R.S., Mr. Joseph Banks, 

 and a number of the candidates for admission into the Club. 

 He had again this year the satisfaction of chronicling the 

 continued generosity of the friends who so liberally con- 

 tributed venison, turtles, and other comestibles. He notes 

 now and then that he himself was a contributor. Thus 

 on one occasion when the two fish courses consisted of 

 " Pike and Soles," he adds at the foot of the list of dishes 

 " the Pike by the Treasurer." At another dinner " A Carp 

 and Tench by the Treasurer," and at a third " Potted 

 Charre by the Treasurer," are duly recorded. On all three 

 occasions he had been absent from the previous dinner. 

 The idea naturally occurs that he sometimes escaped from 

 Budge Row to have a few days angling on inland waters. 

 But when he presents a " Turbutt," it is difficult to believe 

 that he included deep-sea fishing among his recreations. 

 His appreciation of fish as an article of diet continued marked 

 up to the end of his treasurership ; he hardly ever failed to 

 provide two kinds of fish at the beginning of each dinner. 



The Club's bill of fare, which had retained its original 



