322 Presidentship of the Duke of Sussex 1837 



annual General Meeting were announced to have amounted 

 to 116 i8s. 7d., leaving a balance of 8 45. gd. in the Treas- 

 urer's hands. The contribution from each member for the 

 ensuing year was fixed at two pounds. Two vacancies were 

 caused by the omission of the names of two members on 

 account of non-attendance. A third arose from death, as 

 recorded in the following paragraph of the Minutes : 



" Since the last Anniversary the Club has had the misfortune 

 to lose one of its most respected members, Mr. Marsden, who, having 

 been elected in the year 1787, was in the fiftieth year of his member- 

 ship, and was the Father of the Club. Mr. Marsden was chosen 

 Treasurer in 1788 and continued to fulfil the duties of the office 

 till the year 1804, a period of sixteen years ; when the pressure of 

 public business obliged him to resign a trust which he had executed 

 with the greatest credit to himself, and to the entire satisfaction 

 of the Club." 



The three vacancies were filled by ballot, and the candi- 

 dates declared to be duly elected were Dr. Thomas Mayo, 

 the Earl of Burlington, and Professor Christie. 



Sir John Barrow's usual motion about the restriction of 

 the autumn meetings was again made by him and adopted 

 by the meeting. 



The Treasurer reported that " the deficient entries of 

 Club meetings from 1818 to 1828 mentioned by him at 

 the previous Anniversary had been copied into books, with- 

 out further expense to the Club than the cost of the said 

 books/' He modestly refrained from saying that this 

 laborious task had been performed from beginning to end 

 with his own hand. 



The irregular entry of visitors to the dinners, which was 

 so difficult to check in the early days of the Club, still from 

 time to time made it necessary to take such steps as are 

 recorded in the following paragraph of the Minutes of this 

 meeting : " Much inconvenience having been experienced 

 from the influx of visitors at the dinners of the Club without 

 personal introduction by members, as required by the 

 Thirteenth Rule, the Treasurer was particularly requested 

 to insist upon the strict observance of this rule by the 



