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nine years, from 1818 to 1828, might have been entirely lost. 

 It is' due to the memory of this benefactor, who was elected 

 Treasurer at the Anniversary of 1830, to quote here his 

 account of what he did : 



" At the Anniversary Meeting on the 18 June 1818, Mr. Raper 

 resigned the Treasurership and Mr. Daniel Moore was elected in his 

 room, who continued in the office until his death which took place 

 on the 6 January 1828. During Mr. Moore's time no entries were 

 made of the weekly meetings of the Club in a book, but were merely 

 written on slips of paper at the table after dinner. 



" On the election of Captain Edward Sabine at the Anniversary 

 of 1828, he entered the weekly meetings in a book which he pro- 

 cured for that purpose, and when upon his leaving England to join 

 his regiment in Ireland, I was elected Treasurer at the Anniversary 

 on June 10, 1830 I continued to enter the weekly meetings as he 

 had done. Still, as during the period of Mr. Moore's Treasurership, 

 from June 1818 to January 1828, no entries had been made, and 

 as I was very desirous to hand down to my successor the records 

 of the Club as complete as circumstances would allow, I obtained 

 leave of the Club at the Anniversary Meeting on June 23rd 1836, 

 to have this omission supplied. My first intention was to put 

 these loose papers into the hands of some competent person in order 

 to have them regularly entered, but as I should have had to in- 

 struct and supervise continually, during the progress of the work, 

 it appeared to me that perhaps I should find little more trouble 

 in copying these papers myself, than in having to look after the 

 work when performed by another. I therefore purpose, Deo volente, 

 to undertake the business myself, and gradually, as time and oppor- 

 tunity permit, to bring up this arrear of nine years and a half, 

 which will make an unbroken series of records of Club meetings 

 from March 1748 to the present day. 



" I commence this day (Sept. 6, 1836), and if life and health 

 should be graciously continued, hope to complete the same." 



Joseph Smith 

 Grays Inn. 



But it would seem that the omission to enter the record 

 of the weekly meetings in the volume provided for the 

 purpose is not the only fault which has to be charged against 

 Daniel Moore. The Minute of the Anniversary of 1819 

 was the first which he had to prepare, and it might have been 

 anticipated that he would take special pains that it should 

 be accurate. Sir Joseph Banks was in the chair, and he 



