1842 Edward Hawkins; Sir George Henry Rose 335 



moved, " that for the ensuing year the dinners of the Club 

 be upon the same scale as those of the Club of the Geological 

 Society which holds its meetings also at the Crown and 

 Anchor Tavern." The President declared this motion to 

 be carried, the Ayes being 13 and the Noes 7. Until it 

 could be ascertained what the difference in expense might 

 be, it was agreed that the same sum should continue to be 

 collected by the Tavern, viz. eight shillings per head. 



The same arrangement as in recent years was ordered 

 to be observed in regard to dinners in the vacation. 



Of the new members now added to the Club, Edward 

 Hawkins was an archaeologist and Keeper of Antiquities 

 at the British Museum. He had published the year before 

 a work on the " Silver Coins of England/' and was elected 

 into the Royal Society as far back as 1821. Sir George 

 Henry Rose had successively filled several diplomatic posts 

 at European courts, and was at this time member of Parlia- 

 ment for Christchurch. He became F.R.S. in 1834. 



The dinners during the Easter weeks continued this 

 year to attract neither members nor guests. On March 

 1 7th the Treasurer and Murchison had the table to them- 

 selves, on the 24th nobody came, and on the 3ist the Treas- 

 urer was alone. To make up for this defection the meetings 

 on the first Thursdays of the months during the vacation 

 were better attended than they had previously been. 



Four foreign guests this year may be alluded to here. 

 Alexander Chodzko, a Pole who had long studied oriental 

 languages, was invited by Sir George S taunt on. He had 

 lived for a dozen of years in Persia as dragoman and consul 

 and returned to Europe in 1841, after which he published 

 translations of Persian poetry, some in English and some 

 in French. 



On June gth Murchison, now in the full activity of his 

 Presidentship of the Geological Society and busy with the 

 preparation of the great volumes on Russia as the result 

 of his tour in that empire during the previous year, invited 

 to the Club the Russian geologist Count A. de Keyserling, 

 who had been his companion in Russia, and who was now 



