1778 Charles Hutton ; James Lind 143 



and had been in constant service for more than thirty years. 

 He was made Governor of Newfoundland in 1782 and held 

 the appointment for four years. Another English guest 

 was Charles Hutton, eminent as a mathematician, Professor 

 of Mathematics at Woolwich and Copley Medallist. He 

 became F.R.S. in 1774 and was elected Foreign Secretary of 

 the Royal Society at the beginning of 1779. He was the 

 ostensible subject of violent dissensions in the Royal Society 

 a few years later. It may be mentioned that among the 

 visitors this year the name of James Lind, M.D., occurs. As 

 a young Edinburgh physician of promise, with strong scientific 

 tastes, especially towards astronomical pursuits, he was 

 taken by Banks as one of his companions in the expedition 

 to Iceland in 1772. Subsequently he settled in Windsor 

 as a medical man, and was appointed physician to the Royal 

 household there. He became one of the pleasant social 

 circle which Fanny Burney gathered around her when she 

 lived at the Court in Windsor. In the early days of her 

 acquaintance with him that lively diarist thus described 

 him. " He is married and settled here, and follows, as 

 much as he can get practice, his profession ; but his taste 

 for tricks, conundrums, and queer things, makes people 

 fearful of his trying experiments upon their constitutions, 

 and I think him a better conjurer than a physician ; though 

 I don't know why the same man should not be both." x 

 Dr. Lind was elected into the Royal Society on the i8th 

 December 1777, and on the 8th of the following January 

 dined with the Club on the invitation of the Astronomer 

 Royal. 



1 Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay, vol. ii. p. 359. 



