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ardour and success to scientific pursuits. Being a skilled 

 mechanician, he made great improvements in various scientific 

 instruments. Especially important was his work in connec- 

 tion with the construction of a pendulum vibrating seconds, 

 in which he obtained an instrument of extraordinary delicacy, 

 a matter of practical importance in the establishment of 

 standard weights and measures for the country. This 

 laborious research, which extended over several years, 

 gained for him the Copley Medal of the Royal Society in 

 1817. He was elected into the Royal Society in 1814, 

 gave the Bakerian Lecture in 1820 and for three years 

 from 1827 to 1830 was Treasurer. He was elected into 

 the Club in 1821. 



Sir Gore Ouseley, Bart., was an eminent diplomatist. 

 While rendering valuable service to British power in the 

 East he made himself an accomplished scholar in oriental 

 languages. He returned to England in 1815, and was elected 

 into the Royal Society in 1817. 



Sir Christopher Pegge, an Oxford graduate in medicine, 

 in 1801 became Regius Professor of Physic at his own 

 university and held the appointment till his death in 1822. 

 He became F.R.S. in 1795, and was knighted four years 

 later. 



William Buckland, invited by Sir Everard Home on 2nd 

 April, was one of the early fathers of geology in England. 

 By the eloquence of his writings, the attraction of his 

 lectures and excursions, and the charm of his character he 

 did much to spread a recognition of the interest and value 

 of geological studies. He became Professor of Mineralogy 

 at Oxford in 1813 and Reader in Geology in 1819. He had 

 been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society only a few weeks 

 before he dined with the Club. In 1822 he was awarded 

 the Copley Medal. His inaugural discourse, vindicating the 

 subject and the aims of geology, attracted much attention, 

 and he became thereafter a frequent guest at the Club. 



William Martin Leake, who dined with the Philosophers 

 on April 9th, was widely known and esteemed for his re- 

 searches as an antiquary and historian of Asia Minor and 



