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Sir Humphry Davy, President 



Sir Everard Home John Barrow 



John Symmons Charles Wilkins 



Sir Gilbert Blane William Marsden 



Sir R. H. Inglis Henry Browne 



Davies Gilbert H. T. Colebrooke 



Charles Babbage William T. Brande 



John F. W. Herschel Charles Hatchett 

 Dr. Thomas Young 



Daniel Moore, Treasurer 



No statement of the expenses for the past year or of 

 the amount of the contribution for the following year has 

 been preserved. We learn, however, that one vacancy arose 

 from the non-attendance of a member and that Major Colby 

 (p. 265) was elected to fill the place. There is a further 

 memorandum that " it was determined that the sum to 

 be collected at table should remain as before at 8/." It 

 had been suggested that the sum in question should be raised 

 to i os. This suggestion was discussed at a subsequent 

 meeting, but no decision was then reached, the matter 

 being deferred for consideration at the Anniversary this 

 year, when the proposition was negatived. The total attend- 

 ance at the dinners since the last Anniversary was 471, 

 composed of 350 members and 121 visitors. 



The attendance at the autumn meetings showed this 

 year a further diminution, which set in much earlier than 

 usual, for while the two dinners in the latter half of June 

 were attended the one by only five and the other by only 

 four persons, on July yth no one came to the meeting. 

 From the middle of June to the middle of November 

 the twenty-one meetings mustered in all only fifty-nine 

 diners. On five occasions only one member put in an 

 appearance. 



The most famous visitor this year was the French 

 chemist and physicist Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, who dined 

 on April I4th as the guest of Sir Humphry Davy. He was 

 then in his forty-seventh yoar, but his most important 

 discoveries and researches had already been completed, and 

 his reputation was world- wide. He and his colleague Biot 



