177 Baron Dims d ale ; Absentees eliminated 107 



Johnson and James Boswell at Monboddo, of which visit 

 so pleasant a description is given by Boswell. 



Another notable visitor was the physician Thomas Dims- 

 dale, who had served under the Duke of Cumberland in 1745 

 and had afterwards gone to Russia, where, having inoculated 

 the Empress Catharine and various Russian princes against 

 small- pox, he received the hereditary title of a Russian baron. 

 He was familiarly known as Baron Dimsdale. 



1770. The Annual General Meeting in 1770 was held on 

 July 26, and was attended by 



James Burrow, in the Chair. 



Dr. William Watson Hon. Henry Cavendish 



Dr. Huck Rev. Nevil Maskelyne 



Dr. Baker Samuel Dyer 



George Eckersal Josiah Colebrooke, Treasurer 



and by one visitor, Benjamin Franklin. The Treasurer 

 reported that the expenditure for the past year had been 

 10 45., of which 9 2s. 6d. had arisen from deficiencies 

 in the attendance, leaving a balance of nd. against the 

 Club. The total attendance at the dinners since the last 

 Annual General Meeting was 519, comprising 399 members 

 and 1 20 visitors. 



Dr. Wilkinson Blanchard and Dr. Nicholas Munckley had 

 died since the last anniversary. The Earl of Marchmont, 

 Rev. John Cooksey, Dr. Jebb, Samuel Mead and Rev. Dr. 

 Saunders were declared absentees, and were thus struck off 

 the membership of the Club ; the regulation for non-attend- 

 ance being still at this period enforced with promptitude 

 and impartiality. Even the generous gifts of pickled sal- 

 mon from the Earl of Marchmont were not regarded as 

 screening him from the strict application of the rule. 



Seven new members were now elected by ballot from the 

 list of candidates. These were the following : 



John Cuthbert, who was elected a Fellow of the Royal 

 Society in 1765 ; William Russell, who became F.R.S. in 

 1777, and in 1782 succeeded Dr. Solander as Treasurer of 

 the Club; Sir John Mordaunt Cope, Bart., elected F.R.S. in 

 1765 ; Edward Hooper, elected F.R.S. in 1759 ; Sir James 



