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the Royal Society in 1837. Dr. Charles Daubeny, a frequent 

 visitor in previous years (p. 301), now became a valued mem- 

 ber of the Club. 



The two dinners during the Easter fortnight continued 

 to be provided. To the first of them no one came ; at the 

 second the Treasurer, who probably appeared as a matter 

 of duty, was alone. The attendance at the five meetings 

 during the vacation was good, with the exception of the 

 first, when the Treasurer and Sir R. H. Inglis were the only 

 members present. 



Of the few foreign visitors the most notable was " Prince 

 Bonaparte," invited by Robert Brown on May 13. This 

 was probably Charles, son of Lucien, Prince of Canino, 

 brother of Napoleon. His youth was spent in Italy, where, 

 far from the political troubles of the time, he attended some 

 of the best universities and devoted his time mainly to the 

 study of the natural sciences. After the rearrangement 

 of Europe consequent on the close of the Napoleonic wars 

 he went to America, and with great zeal took to study the 

 ornithology of the United States and to publish what was 

 meant to be a supplement to Alexander Wilson's " American 

 Ornithology." Returning to Europe in 1828 and establish- 

 ing himself in Central Italy on his father's estate at Canino, 

 he gave himself up wholly to natural history pursuits, and 

 began the publication of a fine work on the Italian fauna. 

 The death of his father in 1840 made him Prince of Canino 

 and of Musignano. During the political unrest in 1847-9 

 he was drawn for a time into active participation in the 

 liberal movement in Italy. Looking on the entry of the 

 French army into Rome as the ruin of the Republican cause 

 he quitted Italy for France, but he had no sooner landed 

 in that country than the government of his cousin, President 

 Louis Napoleon, bundled him off to England. Recognising 

 that there was now no further scope for him in the political 

 world, he returned to the prosecution of his natural history 

 pursuits, and continued to add to the literature of the sub- 

 ject further memoirs and monographs until he died in 

 1857- 



