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friend and commander Sir James Ross. Among the guests 

 this year Professor Richard Owen reappeared. The interval 

 of ten years since he first dined with the Club had been 

 sedulously employed by him in research, and his reputation 

 had now spread far. His appointment to the first Hunterian 

 Professorship of Comparative Anatomy had given him the 

 opportunity to develop his remarkable power of lucid 

 exposition, and his lectures attracted many listeners. There 

 still lay before him nearly half a century of activity and 

 success. Dr. Roget introduced to the Club on June 5th 

 Archibald Smith, son of James Smith of Jordanhill, a brilliant 

 mathematician who was senior wrangler in 1836. He had 

 taken to law as his profession and became a barrister of 

 Lincoln's Inn, but devoted some part of his time to the 

 practical applications of science, particularly in regard to 

 the adjustment of the compass in iron ships. The Royal 

 Society elected him into its number in 1856 and awarded 

 him one of its Royal medals in 1865. Captain Cautley, 

 invited by the President on November 20th, had served for 

 many years in India, specially in the planning and con- 

 struction of canals. He likewise exhumed from the Siwalic 

 Hills a magnificent series of the remains of extinct and in 

 some cases gigantic mammals, as well as reptiles and birds, 

 which Dr. Hugh Falconer and he described and illustrated 

 in their great work Fauna Sivalensis. The chief part of 

 these remains was presented to the British Museum. Captain 

 Cautley became in 1854 Sir Proby Thomas Cautley, K.C.B. 

 He was afterwards appointed British Resident in Cabul, 

 where he was murdered by mutinous Afghans. 



1846. At the Anniversary meeting in 1846, held on June 

 25th, there were present twenty-seven members, and the 

 chair was taken by the Marquess of Northampton, President. 



The Treasurer's report showed that the expenses since 

 the last Anniversary had amounted to 124 175. and that 

 a balance of 2 175. nd. remained in his hands. The con- 

 tribution for the ensuing year was fixed at fifty shillings. 



No vacancies arose from non-attendance, the absent 

 members having tendered adequate apologies, but two 



