1843 /. G. Kohl; D. Golladon ; Robert Grant 339 



Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Batty was elected into the 

 Royal Society in 1822. 



Among the very few foreign visitors who came to the 

 Club this year reference may be made to the German traveller 

 Johann Georg Kohl, introduced on September yth by Pro- 

 fessor Christie. He had spent many years in journeys over 

 a large portion of Europe, not merely running rapidly over 

 the countries, but spending years in some of them, minutely 

 studying the land and the people living on it. He had 

 already published several volumes about Russia, and at 

 the date of his visit to the Club he had been for some time 

 gathering material for the five volumes on England and 

 Scotland which he published next year. His two volumes 

 on Ireland were issued in German at Leipzig and Dresden 

 this year. 



Daniel Colladon, who has been already alluded to 

 (p. 333), was another of Professor Christie's guests this 

 summer. 



At the beginning of this year a practice was introduced 

 of which no explanation is to be found either in the con- 

 temporary weekly register or in the Minute-book of the 

 Anniversary meetings. Four guests appear on January 5th, 

 and the only member present is the Treasurer, who appends 

 in his register " the visitors introduced by the Treasurer." 

 It might be conjectured that they were guests of members 

 who were prevented from coming to the dinner. But the 

 practice occurs again more than once, and the invitations 

 were evidently given by the Treasurer himself. On 28th 

 December four guests again appear under the wing of the 

 Treasurer, whose note in the register is : " the Treasurer 

 being the only member present the visitors were introduced 

 by him." Three out of the four were the same as on January 

 5th. One of them, " Mr. Robert Grant," may have been 

 the Professor of Comparative Anatomy and Zoology at 

 London University. Probably, as the dinners were actually 

 provided by the Club, the Treasurer deemed it proper for 

 the credit of the Club to bring some of his friends to partake 

 of them. 



