216 Presidentship of Sir Joseph Banks 1803 



1803. At the Anniversary of the Club on 7th July 1803, 

 which was attended by eighteen members, William Marsden 

 being in the chair, the Treasurer made the welcome announce- 

 ment that the amount of his disbursements had fallen to 

 25 195., less than half of what they had been in the previous 

 year, while his receipts amounted to 68 I2s. iod., so that 

 the balance remaining in his hands amounted to so large a 

 sum (42 135. iod.) that he considered it adequate to the 

 probable expenses of the Club during the year and that it 

 was therefore not necessary to call for any contribution 

 from the members. He reported that two vacancies had 

 arisen in the membership owing to the death of William M. 

 Godschall and Samuel Wegg, and that a third would be 

 caused by the desire of Thomas Astle, on account of the 

 state of his health, to resign his place in the Club. This 

 resignation having been accepted, the only candidate brought 

 forward was Mr. Aylmer Bourke Lambert, who on a ballot 

 was elected. He became F.R.S. in 1791. One of the 

 original members of the Linnean Society, he continued to 

 be one of its vice-presidents for nearly fifty years up to the 

 time of his death. He was a good botanist, and, besides 

 separate papers, he published a monograph in three volumes 

 on the genus Pinus. 



The peace of Amiens did not last long, for the war with 

 France broke out again in the early summer of this year 

 and any social intercommunication with the continent was 

 once more cut off. M. Coquebert de Montbret dined again 

 with the Club on I3th January, but he must have quitted 

 England not long after that date. Charles Towneley brought 

 on 26th of May the Prince Bailli Ruspoli to dine and the 

 President introduced Olaus Warberg, who in 1805 was made 

 F.R.S. But the foreign element was almost wholly absent 

 from the symposia of the Philosophers for more than a dozen 

 of years from this time. 



Several peers who were this year elected into the Royal 

 Society were invited to the Club the Earl of Glandore, 

 Viscount Charleville, and the Baron de Blaquiere. Another 

 fresh F.R.S., Sir George Thomas Staunton, whose father had 



