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/8 I2s. id. due to the Treasurer. The contribution for the 

 ensuing year was fixed at two pounds. No vacancies 

 were announced arising either from death or from non- 

 attendance. 



The Treasurer was authorised to reprint the Rules and 

 List of Members of the Club, as eight years had elapsed 

 since the last edition was issued. 



The usual arrangement of monthly dinners between June 

 and November was continued. The Marquess of Northamp- 

 ton was formally re-elected President of the Club, and Mr. 

 Joseph Smith was re-elected Treasurer for the ensuing 

 year. 



One of the memorable dinners of the year took place 

 on 1 7th January, when Henry Hallam took the chair, and 

 there were present R. I. Murchison, with his guest Major 

 Clerke, Robert Brown introducing Sir William Hooker, 

 Captain Smyth with Sir William's son as his guest, Herbert 

 Mayo and the Treasurer. Sir William Hooker, after holding 

 for some years the Professorship of Botany in Glasgow 

 University, was appointed in 1841 Director of the Royal 

 Gardens at Kew, which he greatly extended and improved. 

 His son Joseph Dalton Hooker received a medical education 

 at the University of Glasgow and took his degree of M.D. 

 there this year. He was at this time a young man of two- 

 and- twenty with a brilliant life before him. A few months 

 after this meeting he started his career by sailing under 

 Captain James Clark Ross in the famous expedition to the 

 Antarctic regions. 



Captain Ross was also invited to the Club in the midst 

 of his preparations for this notable Antarctic voyage. He 

 dined twice with the Philosophers before he sailed from 

 England in October. 



Viscount Cole, who dined on April i8th as the guest of 

 Murchison, is best remembered as Lord Enniskillen, and in 

 science as one of the most skilful and successful collectors 

 of fossil fishes. He amassed a fine collection of specimens 

 and knew them all so well that in his later years, when his 

 sight completely failed, he could still pick out by the mere 



