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but on his return in November and December he led in a 

 fresh cohort of foreigners the Baron de Vaij, Count Revisky, 

 Baron Nolcken, Mr. Kuittner and the Abbe Gruber. Some 

 of the other members likewise took their share in the enter- 

 tainment of foreign visitors. Dr. Maskelyne brought M. 

 Arriani, Dr. Blagden invited Dr. Testa and M. de Virly ; 

 Mr. Aubert, Count Oginsky and Count Soderini ; and Dr. 

 Shepherd the Prince Rezzonico. 



The list of English visitors for the year contains a few 

 fresh names. The Mr. Cardonell, invited by Sir William 

 Musgrave, may be conjectured to have been the antiquary 

 Adam Cardonell who lived in Edinburgh, and helped Francis 

 Grose with information for his " Antiquities of Scotland." 

 The Earl of Buchan, the guest of Dr. Watson, 1 was the 

 eleventh who bore the title and was a familiar figure in 

 the society of his day, political, social, and literary. Sir 

 William Fordyce, who came on the invitation of the Presi- 

 dent, was one of a group of brothers born in Aberdeenshire. 

 He chose the medical profession and rose to eminence in 

 it as a London practitioner. Among the faces now familiar 

 to the Club there appeared again this year those of Sir James 

 Hall, Josiah Wedgwood and his son and Sir Henry Engle- 

 field. 



1787. The Annual General Meeting for 1787, held on 26th 

 July, was attended by only ten members, the President being 

 in the Chair. The Treasurer, unable through feebleness to be 

 present, sent his financial statement, which showed a balance 

 against the Club of 22 os. id. The meeting agreed to call 

 upon each member for a contribution of one guinea to the 

 Fund. Mr. Hooper owing to the state of his health resigned 

 his membership. The Earl of Leicester, not having attended 

 any of the weekly meetings of the Club during the last 

 year, nor paid his admission fee, was declared upon ballot 

 to have vacated his election as a member. The number of 

 vacancies was then fixed at five. After the list of candi- 



1 It may be remarked in passing that this staunch supporter of the Club 

 the only surviving member of the original company who started it, this 

 year received the honour of knighthood. 



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