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a Fellow of the College in 1817, and devoted himself for a 

 time to mathematical and physical studies. Elected F.R.S. 

 in 1820, he became Professor of Mineralogy at Cambridge 

 in 1828, took an active interest in the young Geological 

 Society and became its President in 1837. He had a broad 

 grasp of the whole range of scientific research which was 

 admirably displayed in his " History of the Inductive 

 Sciences." In 1841 he became Master of Trinity, and in 

 that position was able to render important service to the 

 College and to the University. 



Another visitor appeared several times who was destined 

 to take a prominent part in the history of the Club Captain 

 (afterwards Admiral) William Henry Smyth. After seeing 

 active service in the Navy in Eastern waters he was 

 employed in charting the coasts of Sicily and the adjacent 

 shores of Italy and Africa. He became the highest autho- 

 rity on the hydrography of the Mediterranean. When he 

 retired from the public service he proved an active promoter 

 of science in London and an efficient member of the 

 scientific societies which he joined. He had become F.R.S. 

 in 1826. Joining the Club in 1835, he was eventually elected 

 its Treasurer, and was the first author to give a sketch of 

 its history (antea, p. 6). 



" Mr. Burchell/' twice a visitor this year, may with 

 little hesitation be regarded as the exploring naturalist 

 who did so much good work in collecting botanical and 

 zoological specimens in South Africa. His name is per- 

 petuated by being attached to one of the varieties of 

 the Zebra. 



Sir David Barry, an army surgeon in the Peninsular War 

 who wrote on physiological subjects, dined with the Club 

 on May 3ist. He had been elected into the Royal Society 

 on April 5th. 



The " Mr. Sheepshanks " who was invited by J. W. 

 Lubbock for the I3th December was doubtless the astronomer 

 of that name, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and 

 Secretary of the Royal Astronomical Society, who had 

 become F.R.S. two years before. 



