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Club on the usual terms, and be admitted as a regular 

 member, on the first vacancy, on his signifying a wish 

 to that effect/' 



The death was announced of Dr. Babington who had so 

 recently become a member, also that of Sir John Malcolm. 

 On a ballot for the filling of the two vacancies, George 

 Dollond and Roderick Impey Murchison were elected. 

 Dollond became F.R.S. in 1819 and Murchison in 1826. 

 These two new members have been already briefly alluded 

 to (pp.244, 284). 



The question of the autumn meetings came up once more, 

 as it could hardly fail to do, after the experience of the 

 previous year. It was proposed by an old member, Mr. 

 Barrow, who had once been a strong supporter of these 

 meetings, and seconded by William Marsden, now the 

 Father of the Club, " That the weekly meetings of the Club 

 be suspended during the present vacation until the 2ist 

 November next, the day on which the Royal Society will 

 resume its sittings ; and in lieu thereof a dinner shall be 

 provided on the first Thursday in each month ; that is to 

 say, on the ist August, 5th September, 3rd October and 

 7th November at six o'clock." 



The visitors this year included " Mr. Hopkins," probably 

 the famous mathematical coach at Cambridge ; Captain 

 Chesney, possibly the same who first showed that the Red 

 Sea and Mediterranean could be connected by a navigable 

 canal ; Mr. Kirby and Mr. Spence, the joint authors of 

 the excellent " Introduction to Entomology," who were 

 appropriately invited by Mr. Children to the same dinner ; 

 Mr. Swainson, probably the well-known naturalist and 

 collector who contributed largely to Lardner's <f Cyclopedia " 

 and Jardine's " Naturalist's Library " ; Sir James Graham, 

 the active member of Parliament in the first half of last 

 century ; and a number of visitors who had previously 

 been guests Buckland, Panizzi, Whewell, Daubeny, Z. 

 Macaulay, and others. 



1834. At the Anniversary held on July 3, 1834, when 

 twenty-three members were present, the chair was taken 



