318 Presidentship of the Duke of Sussex 1836 



The Treasurer's statement showed that the tavern bills 

 and small expenses had amounted to 113 los. 4d. and that 

 a balance of 33 is. 4d. remained in the Treasurer's hands. 

 The contribution to be demanded from each member was 

 fixed at two pounds. No vacancies for non-attendance 

 were declared ; the only vacancy which had to be filled 

 this year was that caused by the death of Sir Charles Wilkins. 

 On a ballot Lord Teignmouth was declared to be duly 

 elected. 



Sir John Barrow continued to be as prominent as ever 

 in his efforts to reduce the number of the autumn meet- 

 ings. He brought forward again and carried his motion 

 that those meetings should be confined to the first Thurs- 

 day in the months of July, August, September, October 

 and November. 



The meeting, on the proposal of the Treasurer, unani- 

 mously agreed to rescind the resolution relating to members 

 of the Council of the Royal Society which had been adopted 

 at the Anniversary in 1832 (p. 308), but had never been 

 put into operation. 



It was at this meeting that the Treasurer informed the 

 members that the reports of the various meetings and 

 transactions of the Club from 1818 to 1828 existed only 

 on separate slips of paper and had never been entered 

 into the books kept for the purpose as had been the practice 

 before and since that interval. He proposed and the meet- 

 ing agreed that he should have the contents of these papers 

 fairly transcribed into the books, as has already (p. 262) 

 been mentioned. 



The new member, Lord Teignmouth, the second holder 

 of the Barony, succeeded to the title in 1834. His father, 

 John Shore, passed many years of his life in India, where 

 he filled a succession of important public offices, ending 

 in his being appointed Governor-General, and raised to the 

 peerage with the title of Baron Teignmouth. The new 

 member of the Club, who had been elected into the Royal 

 Society in 1834, entered Parliament as representative of 

 Marylebone. 



