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sidered an attendance within the meaning of the said 

 Resolution." 



It was further agreed to appoint a special committee to 

 revise the rules of the Club, that such rules when revised 

 should be printed and that the list of the members should 

 be annually printed. 



The new member, Lord Bexley, who had been raised to 

 the peerage since he was proposed for the membership, 

 but is best remembered as Nicholas Vansittart, was 

 elected F.R.S. in 1822. He was one of the peers who voted 

 against the Reform Bill of 1832. He lived till 1851 and 

 died in his eighty-fifth year, when, as he had no children, 

 his title became extinct. Jesse Watts Russell was elected 

 F.R.S. in 1821. 



The attendance of the members during July, August 

 and September sank lower this year than it had ever yet 

 been. On two days no one came. The average attendance 

 was less than three. 



The most distinguished visitor of the year was Michael 

 Faraday, who dined on January I5th as the guest of Sir 

 Everard Home. He had become Davy's assistant twelve 

 years before at the Royal Institution, where his genius 

 had at last an opportunity to develop its marvellous 

 powers. Whilst rendering great service to Davy, he showed 

 himself to be an original discoverer who would strike out 

 his own path. The Royal Society had discerned his merit 

 by electing him a Fellow on the 8th of January of this 

 year and a week thereafter he dined at the Club. 



The " Mr. Airey " who dined on January 15 th as John 

 F. W. Herschel's guest -was no doubt George Biddell Airy, 

 the future Astronomer Royal. At this time he was a young 

 man of three-and-twenty, senior wrangler and Smith's 

 prizeman the year before, and now this year to gain his 

 fellowship at Trinity. A brilliant scientific career followed 

 this auspicious opening. 



Another eminent man whose name was destined to 

 become a familiar word in geological literature, but was still 

 unknown outside the circle of his own acquaintance, dined 



