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Among the guests were Lord Mahon, afterwards Earl 

 Stanhope, who next year was made F.R.S. ; Lord Carrington, 

 who as Robert Smith sat in the House of Commons as 

 Member for Nottingham, and in acknowledgment of his 

 political services to Pitt was raised into the peerage ; the 

 fifth Earl of Selkirk, specially notable for his life-long 

 efforts to promote emigration from Scotland to the North 

 American Colonies ; and Lord John Thynne. In May and 

 again in June the President had Sir James Hall and Professor 

 John Playfair to meet each other at the Club. 



1807. The Annual General Meeting was held in 1807 on 

 25th June and was attended by twenty-four members, the 

 President, Sir Joseph Banks, in the chair. The Treasurer's 

 statement showed that his disbursements were almost 

 exactly the same as those of last year, but that instead of 

 an adverse balance, he had come to the end of the financial 

 year with fourteen shillings and twopence in hand. The 

 contribution for the ensuing year was fixed at one guinea. 



The Treasurer reported that the Earl of Dartmouth 

 (formerly Viscount Lewisham), the Due de Bouillon, the 

 Rev. Sir Richard Kaye, Bart., John Lloyd, O. P. Meyrick 

 and John Ord "had not attended any meeting since the 

 last anniversary nor sent any excuse for not having done 

 so." It was resolved that all these members, with the 

 exception of Lord Dartmouth and Mr. Lloyd, " are no 

 longer members of the Club and in consequence that there 

 are five vacancies, one having remained from last year." 

 There were two candidates on the list, one of whom, after 

 a ballot, was declared to be duly elected. This new 

 member, Arthur Annesley, eighth Viscount Valentia, had 

 in previous years dined as a guest from time to time. He 

 had been elected into the Royal Society on 24th November 

 1796. 



One paragraph in the Minutes of this Anniversary which 

 calls for a remark may be inserted here : " The Treasurer 

 reported the death of the Bishop of St. Asaph, but he being 

 a member ex officio, no vacancy was created thereby." 

 The Treasurer, Matthew Raper, who had been elected into 



