34 Presidentship of Marquess of Northampton 1844 



The Erebus and Terror having returned to England on 

 September 5th there must have been a good deal of hearty 

 hand-shaking and congratulation at the Club on December 

 I4th to welcome back Captain James C. Ross and his loyal 

 and tried comrade Captain Crozier from their Antarctic 

 expedition, which had extended over four years and five 

 months. Captain Ross now entered the Club for the first 

 time since his election as a member. Captain Crozier had 

 seen service among the Arctic lands and seas under Parry, 

 and he had been a leading spirit under Captain Ross in 

 the far south. There was still to come his return to the 

 Arctic regions under Franklin, and the sad fate which befel 

 these intrepid explorers after they had really solved the 

 problem of the North-west Passage. 



1844. The Anniversary Meeting of the Club on June 27, 

 1844, was attended by twenty-six members, with Sir John 

 Barrow in the chair. The expenses for the year since last 

 Anniversary were announced by the Treasurer to have 

 come to 134 is. 6d., leaving a balance due to him of 

 42 igs. id. The contribution for the ensuing year was 

 fixed at two pounds ten shillings. 



Lord Burlington and Dr. Whewell not having been at 

 any meeting of the Club for three years, " the question 

 was put from the Chair that these gentlemen be discon- 

 tinued as members, which was carried." Lord Stanley 

 desired to resign his membership " on account of increasing 

 infirmities and to express his ardent feelings of regard and 

 respect for a Society with which he had been connected 

 nearly half a century." J 



It was agreed that the usual arrangement of dinners 

 during the autumn vacation should be continued. Four 

 vacancies in the membership had to be filled up, and on a 

 ballot George William, fourth Baron Lyttelton, Charles 

 Elliott, Robert Edwards Broughton, and Sir John Franklin 

 were declared duly elected. 



1 As already mentioned, this member of the Club after succeeding to 

 his father's baronetcy in 1807 was in 1839 created Baron Stanley of 

 Alderley. 



