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found his way back to his native Montpellier, where the 

 professorship of botany was conferred upon him, and where 

 at the early age of 46 he died. The Royal Society made 

 him one of its foreign members on I4th February 1782 

 while he was still living and working in London. 



The English visitors this year included Sir Richard 

 Worsley, the seventh holder of his baronetcy. Having filled 

 several appointments in the army, he was made a privy- 

 councillor, and was sent to Venice as British resident there. 

 Travelling extensively in the East, visiting Greece, Asia 

 Minor, Egypt, and the Crimea, he spent much time and energy 

 in gathering antiques of all kinds as he went along. He in 

 this way formed a remarkably valuable collection, of which 

 he published a luxuriously printed and illustrated account 

 with the title of Museum Worsleyanum. He owned property 

 in the Isle of Wight, was for some years governor of the island, 

 and wrote a history of it. He was made F.R.S. in 1778. 



Other guests were Dr. David Pitcairn, a physician with a 

 large practice in London ; " Mr. Wedgwood," probably the 

 famous Josiah, the potter. Lord Monboddo again dined 

 with the Club and many other former guests reappeared. 



The most serious event in the arrangements of the Club 

 this year was the need to choose another meeting-place. 

 The Royal Society were leaving their house in Crane Court, 

 Fleet Street, where they had been established for seventy 

 years, to apartments in Somerset House, placed at their 

 disposal by the Government. The Society's Anniversary 

 was held in these rooms on November 30 this year. 

 " The Mitre " was felt to be inconveniently distant from 

 Somerset House, and at the meeting on December I4th, to 

 which no guests were invited, the question of shifting to 

 another meeting-place was discussed. It was then resolved 

 that the Club for the future should meet at " The Crown and 

 Anchor Tavern " in the Strand, that the hour of dining 

 should be 4 o'clock precisely, and that the Treasurer should 

 arrange with the master of that Tavern to have the dinner 

 there on the following Thursday. The last two dinners of 

 this year were accordingly held in the new quarters. 



