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sophy at the London University. Mr. Children invited 

 his mineralogical friend Thomas Allan, and Mr. Herschel 

 entertained his astronomical colleague James South. 



Francis Chantrey on March ist introduced Dr. Herbert 

 Mayo, surgeon and physiologist, whose work on the nerves 

 of the face led to his being elected next year into the Royal 

 Society, and who is remembered as the originator of the 

 medical school at the Middlesex Hospital. At this same 

 dinner over which Mr. Marsden presided there were also 

 present as members Earl Spencer, Sir Benjamin Hobhouse, 

 James Barrow, Sir Alexander Johnston, Charles Hatchett, 

 J. G. Children, and Dr. Burney, and as visitors Captain 

 Basil Hall, Mr. Brunei, John Edward Gray of the zoological 

 department of the British Museum, and Mr. Bell. 



1828. The Anniversary in 1828 was held on June 5th, 

 when twenty-four members attended and Mr. Davies Gilbert 

 took the chair. Several events since the previous Anniversary 

 had occurred to interrupt the normal course of the business. 

 The change in the Presidentship of the Royal Society 

 introduced a new Chairman into the Club. The death of 

 the Treasurer on 6th January was considered at the meeting 

 of the Club on the loth, and in the absence of the President, 

 the members then present requested Captain Edward Sabine 

 to act temporarily as Treasurer. Captain Sabine had been 

 appointed to be one of the Secretaries of the Royal Society 

 on 3Oth November, and now entered the Club as an ex 

 officio member. At the same time the other Secretaryship 

 of the Society had been filled by the election of Dr. Peter 

 Mark Roget, who now also became a member of the Club 

 ex officio. Dr. Roget, a medical graduate of Edinburgh 

 University, while engaging in the active practice of physician 

 had given much close attention to physiological problems. 

 He was in 1833 selected as the first Fullerian professor of 

 Physiology of the Royal Institution. To literary men he 

 is perhaps best known as the author of the useful " Thesaurus 

 of English Words and Phrases." He was elected into the 

 Royal Society in 1815. 



Captain Sabine, acting as Treasurer, reported that he had 



