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should be the guardians of the peace of the whole of Europe. 

 He ultimately settled in France and died there in 1833. 



The " Dr. Von Martius " who dined on June 2gth may 

 be identified with the eminent German botanist Carl 

 Friedrich Philipp von Martius, one of the early explorers 

 of Brazil, whose " Reise nach Brazilien " gave him a great 

 reputation among the men of science of his day. His 

 specially botanical writings, such as his splendid monograph 

 on the Palms of South America, and above all his Flora 

 Braziliensis, were important original contributions to science. 

 Other foreign guests in the course of the year were Captain 

 Erichsen, M. Bouvard, and M. Gompertz. 



Among the English visitors to the Club this year for 

 the first time was another of the early fathers of English 

 geology George Poulett Scrope, whose memory is affec- 

 tionately cherished by the rapidly diminishing band of those 

 who enjoyed his friendship. By researches among the 

 extinct volcanoes of Central France, by his published views 

 on volcanoes and volcanic action, and by his energetic 

 advocacy of the potent influence of subaerial denudation 

 in the formation of valleys and the shaping of the surface 

 features of the land he did great service in advancing the 

 progress of modern geology. He also wrote many pam- 

 phlets of a political kind, whence he was sometimes called 

 " Pamphlet Scrope." He dined twice at the Club this 

 spring, each time as the guest of Mr. Lambert. 



Another labourer in the geological field, Dr. Babington, 

 was this year the guest of the President. He was a well- 

 known physician in London, who found time to give to the 

 cultivation of science. He was elected into the Club in 1832. 



General Sir Rufane Shaw Donkin, who dined with the 

 Club in March and again in November, served in the 

 Peninsular and Mahratta wars, and had been acting-governor 

 at the Cape of Good Hope, in which capacity he took part 

 in the founding of Port Elizabeth. He had been elected 

 into the Royal Society on February 23rd of this year. 



Sir Charles Wetherell, the Attorney General of the day, 

 Sir George Nayler, Garter-King at arms, and the Windsor 



