1841 John F. Royle; Charles G. B. Daubeny 331 



remained in his hands a balance of 27 I2s. nd. The 

 contribution for the year 1841-2 was fixed at two pounds. 



There was one vacancy arising from the death of Robert 

 Ferguson, and another was created by the transference of 

 Colonel Colby to the Supplemental List, seeing that his 

 professional duties on the Ordnance Survey, by requiring 

 his residence in Scotland, would prevent his attendance 

 at the meetings. He had proposed to resign his member- 

 ship, but the Club wished to retain him on the Supplemental 

 List so that he might on returning to London be replaced 

 as a member should he so desire. A ballot was taken and 

 John Forbes Royle, M.D., and Charles G. B. Daubeny, 

 M.D., were declared to be duly elected. 



It was agreed that the meetings during the vacation 

 should continue as they had been for some years past. 

 The following motion was adopted at this meeting : "It 

 was resolved on the motion of Mr. Robert Brown, seconded 

 by the Rev. Dr. Jennings, that Rule 14 ' Any foreigner, 

 who shall be invited by a member to dine with the Club, 

 shall not be required to pay for his dinner/ be rescinded." 

 The Minutes contain no reasons for this return to the former 

 inhospitable treatment of foreign guests. Nor do the records 

 furnish any evidence as to when the present practice was 

 established that each member pays for the guest whom 

 he invites, whether native or foreigner, save when the Execu- 

 tive Committee invites a distinguished visitor and places 

 the cost of his entertainment as a charge on the funds of 

 the Club. It will be seen on a later page that at least up 

 to 1856 the question could arise whether or not a dis- 

 tinguished Bakerian lecturer, invited to dine with the Club, 

 should be allowed to pay for his dinner. 



Dr. J. F. Royle, now elected into the Club, was a surgeon 

 and botanist who had been long in the service of the East 

 India Company and attached to the Bengal Army. While 

 superintendent of the Garden at Saharunpore he made a 

 valuable collection of plants of economic use, and after his 

 return to England he was appointed Professor of Materia 

 Medica at King's College, London. He was elected into 



