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to this balance there were due to be added 2,2 from eleven 

 members for the past year and 32 from five members for 

 more than a year, so that if these arrears were paid the 

 available balance would be raised to m 73. 4d. It was 

 resolved that the contribution for the ensuing year should 

 be 2, which when received from the 45 members composing 

 the Club would make a fund of 90. 



The attendance at the dinners since the last Anniversary 

 amounted in all to 820 diners, of whom 678 were members 

 and 142 were visitors. It will be seen that in subsequent 

 years the numbers were usually much smaller. 



The list of absentees this year showed that eight members 

 were in default, half of them for the preceding year and 

 the rest for longer periods. It was decided that two of the 

 defaulters should be removed from the list of members. 

 As the result of the ballot three vacancies caused by the 

 death of Lord Dundas, and the discontinuance of two 

 absentees, were filled by the election of the Earl of Maccles- 

 field, the Rev. .Charles Parr Burney, and the Earl of 

 Aberdeen. 



The last paragraph of the minutes is as follows : " Re- 

 solved that Sir Humphry Davy Bart, be President, and 

 Mr. Moore, Treasurer, and that the thanks of the Club be 

 returned to the latter for his care of their accounts." Here 

 again a statement has been inserted in the Minute-book 

 which was contrary to fact. Dr. Wollaston was elected 

 President of the Club at the weekly meeting on 2Qth June. 

 He took the chair both at the Anniversary and at subse- 

 quent meetings of the Club up to St. Andrew's Day. At 

 six of these meetings Sir Humphry Davy was present as 

 an ordinary member, and Dr. Wollaston occupied the chair. 

 It is difficult to account for such misstatements, unless on 

 the supposition, already suggested, that the Treasurer's 

 minutes were written some time afterwards from rough and 

 imperfect notes which a treacherous memory failed to keep 

 accurate. 



The three new members elected this year all belonged 

 to families which had already contributed to the member- 



