J 775 The President invites thirteen guests 1 27 



pen for some months is shown by his last published paper 

 (" On a coin of Robert, Earl of Gloucester "), which is dated 

 from Budge Row, I4th February 1775. He died on the 

 i6th August following. 



The new Treasurer was evidently encountering the same 

 difficulties as his predecessor in calculating for how many 

 it would be most convenient and economical to provide 

 dinner. Sir John Pringle must have astonished the members 

 by the party which as President he invited to the dinner 

 on I2th January 1775. It consisted of no fewer than 

 thirteen guests, who included the Count de Salis, Wang a 

 Tong, a Chinese, Lord Seaforth, Thomas Pennant, Lord 

 Mahon, Charles Greville, Dr. Blagden and others. Banks 

 brought Omai, Dr. Solander had Colonel Roy, and Dr. 

 Morton introduced Sir Lucius O'Brien. There were alto- 

 gether thirteen members and twenty visitors. The 

 Treasurer found that although the numbers who attended 

 up to August continued to be satisfactory they rapidly 

 diminished thereafter. The number of diners provided for 

 was twelve, but with a constant demand on his Fund he was 

 constrained on I4th September to order commons for ten 

 only during the rest of the recess of the Royal Society. And 

 yet no sooner was this change made than the numbers went 

 up beyond the new limit, and no demand on the Fund was 

 required until almost the end of December. 



An agreeable collocation of guests and members took place 

 on May 4th, when the President invited among his guests 

 Boswell and Blagden; Solander brought the Count de 

 Clary and Charles Greville, and William Russell introduced 

 Alexander Tytler the historian, and when among the mem- 

 bers present were Henry Cavendish, Joseph Banks and Dr. 

 Horsley. Captain James Cook dined twice with the Club 

 in the course of the year. Another guest, a familiar figure 

 in the society of his day, was John Paradise, son of the 

 English consul at Salonica in Macedonia, where he was 

 born. He was educated at Padua, but received the degrees 

 of M.A. and D.C.L. from the University of Oxford. He 

 lived most of his life in London. He was one of the circle 



