1837 Ear I of Burlington; S. H. Christie; A.D. Bache 323 



Landlord of the Tavern, agreeably to the Minute entered 

 in the proceedings of the Club on the 7th July 1831." 



Of the new members added to the Club at this Anniversary 

 Thomas Mayo was a prominent London physician who 

 became President of the Royal College of Physicians and 

 had been elected into the Royal Society in 1835. The 

 Earl of Burlington, who had succeeded to the title in 1834, 

 became in 1858 seventh Duke of Devonshire. As the en- 

 lightened Chancellor of Cambridge University and a muni- 

 ficent supporter of everything that could advance the cause 

 of science and industry, he lived till 1891, when he had 

 reached his eighty-third year. Samuel Hunter Christie, 

 the able mathematical professor at the Woolwich Military 

 Academy, was elected into the Royal Society in 1826. An 

 adept in magnetic science, he was of much service to the 

 Admiralty in regard to the compasses of the Navy. 



The foreign visitors this year, besides a few who had 

 previously been present, included Professor Alexander Dallas 

 Bache, grandson of Benjamin Franklin, whose bent towards 

 physical research he inherited. He was a graduate of 

 West Point, and at the early age of two-and-twenty became 

 Professor of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry in the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania. For the last quarter of a century 

 of his life he most ably filled the responsible office of Super- 

 intendent of the Coast Survey till his death in 1867. Other 

 foreign visitors were Dr. G. Forchhammer, the Danish 

 chemist and geologist; Mr. Rush, late ambassador from 

 the United States; the Prince de Musignano, nephew of 

 Napoleon, and M. Lecambre. 



The British visitors had mostly been guests in previous 

 years. Among the new-comers were Dr. William Smith, 

 whom one would like to be able to identify with the 

 venerated Father of Stratigraphical Geology, the value of 

 his work being by this time fully recognised by the geologists, 

 who in 1831 awarded him their highest honour, the Wollaston 

 Medal, and by the Government of the day, which conferred 

 on him a Civil List pension ; Dr. Boase, who after practising 

 as a physician in Penzance had settled in London and was 



