1806 Samuel Vince ; Henry Beeke ; Dr. Wave I I 221 



find in the records of next year he reappeared once more at 

 the Club. 



The visitors this year included the Comte de St. Amand ; 

 the second Baron Henniker ; Lord Kirkwall ; also Samuel 

 Vince, who in 1796 had succeeded to the Plumian pro- 

 fessorship of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at 

 Cambridge, which he held till his death in 1821. It is an 

 odd coincidence that by mere chance two men, each of 

 whom had brought to notice a new British mineral which 

 had been named after him, should both have dined with 

 the Club on different days in the month of May this year 

 Dr. Henry Beeke, Fellow of Oriel, Professor of Modern 

 History at Oxford and afterwards Dean of Bristol, and Dr. 

 Wavell. In compliment to the former, a chalcedonic chert 

 from the New Red Sandstone of Devonshire, to which he 

 first called attention, was named Beekite ; while an inter- 

 esting subphosphate of alumina which Dr. Wavell discovered 

 in the same county was named Wavellite. 



1806. The Anniversary in 1806 was held on 3rd July and 

 was attended by nineteen members and also the Bishop of 

 St. Asaph, Sir Joseph Banks taking the chair. The Treasurer 

 announced that his disbursements on account of tavern- 

 bills had amounted to 34 175., leaving a balance against 

 the Club of 13 8s. 2d. It was agreed that each member 

 should contribute a guinea to clear off this deficiency and 

 provide for the needs of the ensuing year. 



Two members had died since the last Anniversary 

 Welbore Ellis Agar and Alexander Aubert. Two had not 

 attended nor paid their contributions for two years, but 

 the Club was now less rigorous in enforcing the regulation 

 against non-attendance, and these defaulters were not yet 

 stnick off the list of members. The Duke of Somerset, 

 however, had not attended any meeting since his election 

 nor paid his admission fee. He had thus neglected to 

 qualify himself and he was declared to have forfeited his 

 membership. Five vacancies remained to be filled and 

 there were four candidates for election. On being sever- 

 ally put to the ballot they were all elected, viz. the Rev. 



