1845 Last appearance of Sir John Franklin 343 



His election into the Royal Society dated from 1838. H. H. 

 Brandreth, Captain in the Royal Engineers, and also Hart 

 Davis, both became F.R.S. in 1841. John Barrow, son of 

 Sir John, Secretary to the Admiralty, and frequently brought 

 by him as a visitor to the Club, was elected into the Royal 

 Society in 1844. Travers Twiss, an able barrister of Lincoln's 

 Inn, was elected F.R.S. in 1838. At the time of his admission 

 into the membership of the Club he was Drummond Pro- 

 fessor of Political Economy. He was afterwards appointed 

 Professor of International Law at King's College, London, 

 and in 1855 Regius Professor of Civil Law at Oxford. He 

 was knighted in 1867. 



Further indications of the increasing disposition of the 

 Club to enjoy a holiday are to be noted in the records of 

 this year. In Whitsun week, though a dinner was pro- 

 vided, there was no attendance, and contrary to the early 

 practice of the Club, no dinner was ordered on Christmas 

 Day. The arrangement for the monthly dinner during the 

 vacation of the Royal Society, however, continued to be 

 well supported. There were never fewer than eight on the 

 first Thursday of each month and usually more than that 

 number. 



Sir John Franklin, now in the fullest activity of prepara- 

 tion for his expedition in search of the north-west passage, 

 found time to dine twice with the Club in January. On 

 one of these occasions Sir James Clark Ross was also present, 

 whose ships, the Erebus and Terror, Franklin was to take 

 into the Arctic regions. The intrepid navigator sailed from 

 Greenhithe on May igth, taking with him a large and picked 

 staff of officers and men. He disappeared among the 

 northern ice and snow. One expedition after another was 

 fruitlessly sent for his relief. At last, after five years of 

 ceaseless search, traces of the expedition were found, and 

 afterwards full proof that no survivor remained, and that 

 Franklin died on nth June 1847. But he had discovered 

 the North-west Passage. 



Captain Crozier, who accompanied Franklin, dined with 

 the Club for the last time on April I7th as the guest of his 



