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was probably Nicolas Theodore, son of the illustrious Horace 

 Benedict de Saussure, born in 1767. He accompanied his 

 father in some of his journeys and ascents of the Swiss 

 mountains. He inherited scientific tastes and devoted him- 

 self to physical science, especially to chemistry and vegetable 

 physiology. He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal 

 Society in 1820. He lived till 1845. 



There were no specially outstanding personalities among 

 the fresh visitors from Great Britain at the Club during 

 this year. Lord Sheffield dined quietly with the President 

 at two small dinners on January gth and 23rd, probably 

 when he was called to London by the condition of Gibbon, 

 who died between those two dates. Major Alexander 

 Dirom, who dined twice in the spring, had been Deputy 

 Adjutant-general in the second Mysore war and published 

 an account of the campaign against Tippoo Sultan. He 

 was elected F.R.S. in July of this year. The " Mr. Lysons " 

 whose name appears on the list for May 22 may be pro- 

 bably identified with the well-known antiquary and Keeper 

 of the Records at the Tower of London, who was elected 

 into the Royal Society in 1797 and became Treasurer of 

 the Society in 1810. " Mr. Leslie," who was brought to 

 the Club by Dr. Maskelyne this year, was possibly the able 

 mathematician and natural philosopher John Leslie, who 

 a few years later published his Experimental Inquiry into 

 the Nature and Properties of Heat. He became Professor of 

 Mathematics in the University of Edinburgh in 1819, and in 

 recognition of his services to science he was knighted in 1832. 



1795. In the year 1795 the Annual General Meeting, held 

 on 2nd July, was attended by the following company : 



Sir Joseph Banks, President 



Earl of Morton Viscount Palmerston 



Hon. Henry Cavendish Samuel Wegg 



Sir Charles Blagden Frederick A. Barnard 



Richard Molesworth Dr. Nevil Maskeline 



George Best Dr. Samuel F. Simmons 



Alexander Aubert Alexander Dalrymple 



Major James Rennell Sir Philip Stephens 



Joseph Planta William Marsden, Treasurer 



