1846 John Dickinson; Thomas Galloway 34.5 



vacancies were caused, one by the resignation of Sir George 

 Rose and the other by the offer of George Rennie to have 

 his name transferred to the ex officio list, as he had been 

 elected Treasurer of the Royal Society, On a ballot being 

 taken John Dickinson and Thomas Galloway were declared 

 to be duly elected. The former, who had been chosen into 

 the Royal Society in the previous year, was the head of 

 the well-known firm of paper-makers at Nash Mills, Hemel 

 Hempstead, and a man of marked scientific tastes. He 

 was the uncle of John Evans, the antiquary and subsequently 

 Treasurer of the Royal Society. Moreover, he came into 

 a particularly close relationship with that eminent man, 

 who became a partner in his firm and married his daughter. 

 Thomas Galloway, an able mathematician from Edinburgh, 

 taught mathematics at Sandhurst for a time, and after- 

 wards was appointed registrar of the Amicable Life Assur- 

 ance Company. He contributed articles to the Edinburgh 

 Review and to the seventh edition of the Encyclopaedia 

 Britannic a. He became F.R.S. in 1834. 



There was again a defection of members from the two 

 dinners at Easter. At the first only the Treasurer and 

 his guest attended, and to the second no one came at all. 

 There are further instances of the Treasurer's efforts to make 

 a dinner-party by bringing all the diners himself. Thus, 

 on New- Year's Day there was a Club dinner to which he 

 and four of his friends came. He appends the following 

 note in the weekly register : " The Treasurer being the only 

 member present, the visitors were introduced by him." 

 Colonel Sabine on 3rd September was still more successful in 

 collecting a party in vacation time ; the company numbered 

 seven, and they were all guests but himself : the Treasurer's 

 note of this dinner runs thus : " Colonel Sabine being the 

 only member present, the visitors were introduced by him." 

 The party was remarkable enough to be quoted here Colonel 

 Sabine, with Colonel Dundas, Professor Oersted, Professor 

 Schonbein, Dr. Forchhammer, Mr. Grove, and Professor 

 Ansted. Oersted, the famous Danish physicist, has been 

 already mentioned (p. 279) . Professor Schonbein, the eminent 



