1844 Ld. Lyttelton; R. E. Eroughton; Sir J. Franklin 341 



Lord Lyttelton became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 

 1840, three years after he succeeded to the peerage. He 

 was a highly cultivated country gentleman who interested 

 himself in the welfare of his county. He was chosen the 

 first President of the Birmingham and Midland Institute, 

 for a time he was Under-Secret ary for the Colonies and after- 

 wards Chief Commissioner of Endowed Schools. Charles 

 Elliott was elected into the Royal Society in 1835 and 

 R. E. Broughton in 1842. Sir John Franklin's fellowship 

 of the Society was conferred on him in 1823. Since 

 he last dined with the Club he had, as Lieutenant- 

 governor of Van Diemen's Land, spent some six years 

 on the island doing his best to humanise the convicts 

 there. Having .iow returned to England he this year 

 dined once with the Club in June as a visitor, and three 

 times in the autumn as a member. He was now busy 

 making preparations to start next year on his last and 

 fatal expedition. 



Most of the visitors had previously dined with the Club. 

 Among the new-comers were Sir Charles Vaughan of the 

 Diplomatic service, who had been Secretary of Legation in 

 Spain and in Paris, and our Ambassador to Switzerland and 

 the United States ; William Longman, the head of the well- 

 known publishing house ; Dr. John Merewether, Dean of 

 Hereford ; Mr. Bowman, probably the distinguished oph- 

 thalmic surgeon who became a Fellow of the Royal Society 

 in 1841 and for many years, in that Society and at the 

 Royal Institution, took an active part in the scientific life 

 of London ; and " Mr. Weld," a guest invited by Sir John 

 Franklin on October 3rd, who may be conjectured to have 

 been the able member of the Middle Temple who next year 

 became the assistant-secretary and librarian of the Royal 

 Society, and three years thereafter published his well-known 

 " History of the Royal Society." Captain James Ross 

 availed himself of his right as a member to bring his tried 

 colleague Captain Crozier to the Club on March 7th, and 

 Murchison again invited his old friend and correspondent 

 Feat herstonha ugh. 



