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A few scientific fellow-countrymen of note were included 

 among the visitors this year. Baden Powell of Oriel College, 

 Oxford, who next year was elected into the Royal Society, 

 was in 1827 appointed to the Savilian professorship of 

 geometry, which he held till his death in 1860. Francis 

 Baily, successful stockbroker and accomplished astronomer, 

 retired from business in 1825, when he was little over fifty, 

 and devoted himself to the revision of star-catalogues and 

 other astronomical studies, and to a fresh measurement of 

 the weight of the globe by the method of Michell and Caven- 

 dish. He was elected into the Royal Society in 1821 and 

 in 1835 became its Treasurer. Having been one of the foun- 

 ders of the Astronomical Society, he was elected four times 

 its president. He lived till 1844. Thomas Andrew Knight, 

 a distinguished vegetable physiologist and horticulturist, 

 was elected into the Royal Society in 1805, and next year 

 was the recipient of the Copley Medal. Professor Buckland 

 came to dinner six times in the course of the year, being the 

 guest successively of the President, Sir Robert Inglis, Dr. 

 Wollaston, Mr. Murdoch and the Bishop of Carlisle. 



The Rev. William Daniel Conybeare, Buckland's close friend 

 and his associate in geological research, dined with the Club 

 for the first time on June 12 as the guest of Captain Kater. 

 Conybeare's name has been enshrined in the list of those 

 early leaders by whom the infant science of geology was 

 established in this country. In the previous year (1822), 

 in conjunction with William Phillips, he had published his 

 classic volume " Outlines of the Geology of England and 

 Wales," which did so much to advance the study of the 

 science in this country. Another now less known but in 

 his day effective cultivator of science, Lewis Weston 

 Dillwyn, was Wollaston's guest on February 27. He was 

 a naturalist in the old sense of the word, but more especially 

 a botanist, and had published many years before this time 

 his " Natural History of British Confervae." He was 

 member of parliament for Glamorganshire from 1832 to 

 1841 and took an active part in public affairs, especially 

 those of his own county. 



