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come to England to make a series of geological excursions 

 with Murchison. 



The " Dr. Lepsius " who dined on August 4 was the well- 

 known archaeologist who at this time had come to England 

 on his way to conduct an expedition to Egypt. He started 

 from London in the following month. The results of that 

 famous journey are preserved in his great work " Denkmaler 

 aus Aegypten und Aethiopien." 



Edward Everett, the guest of J. L. Guillemard on November 

 I7th, was one of the most eminent Americans who ever dined 

 with the Club. Educated for a clergyman he specially 

 distinguished himself by his attainments in Greek, which 

 were so marked that in 1815, when only twenty-one years 

 of age, he was chosen Professor of Greek at Harvard. To 

 equip himself more thoroughly for this office he spent four 

 years in Europe and made many friends among literary 

 men of different countries. Thereafter he became in suc- 

 cessive years editor of the North American Review, member 

 of Congress, Governor of Massachusetts, and now he had 

 come as Minister Plenipotentiary to the court of St. James. 

 He retained this position from 1841 until 1845, and on 

 his return to America was chosen President of Harvard 

 College. 



The guest introduced by Professor Christie on January 

 13 may be identified with William Hopkins, the Cambridge 

 mathematical coach who had dined with the Club in 1833. 

 He was a geologist of mark, President of the Geological 

 Society in 1851 and of the British Association in 1853. His 

 contributions to geological science though not numerous were 

 of great originality and value. 



John Peter Gassiot, who had become F.R.S. in 1840, 

 dined with the Club on July 7th. An able investigator of 

 electrical phenomena, he was also a generous supporter of 

 meteorological and magnetic research. He was chiefly in- 

 strumental, in the endowment of Kew Observatory, of which 

 he was chairman, and to him the Royal Society owes the 

 foundation of the valuable Gassiot Trust Fund and the 

 origination of the Scientific Relief Fund, which has proved 



