

1847 J. A. Paris; Henry Ac land ; W. H. Smyth 347 



Ayrton Paris, proposed by Dr. Roget and seconded by Sir 

 R. I. Murchison, was declared to be duly elected. He was 

 a physician educated at Cambridge and Edinburgh, and 

 held the office of President of the Royal College of Physicians. 

 He had been elected into the Royal Society as far back as 

 1821. 



The usual arrangement of dinners in the vacation was 

 sanctioned, but a further new regulation was enacted, 

 providing that notwithstanding the suspension of the full 

 number of weekly meetings during the autumn " any Fellow 

 of the R.S. Club shall be at liberty to order a Club dinner 

 on any of the intervening Thursdays, on making himself 

 responsible to the Club in such case for not less than six 

 persons at ten shillings each, including wine and dessert, 

 tea and coffee to be provided in proportion." 



The Easter attendance was unsatisfactory. No one came 

 to the first dinner, and the Treasurer and two friends formed 

 all the company at the second. The first of the vacation 

 dinners having been made the date of the Anniversary, 

 it was attended by the large number of thirty members. 

 At the later dinners in August, September, and October 

 the company varied from three to seven. 



A few names of some note occur in the dinner lists this 

 year. The " Dr. H. Acland " who dined on February 4th 

 was doubtless the future Sir Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland, 

 K.C.B., the much esteemed Professor of Clinical Medicine 

 at Oxford, and President of the General Medical Council. 

 " Professor Smyth," introduced by his father, Captain W. H. 

 Smyth, was known in later years as Sir Warington Smyth, 

 M.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, the genial member of 

 the so-called " Jermyn Street gang," or staff of the Geo- 

 logical Survey and School of Mines, in which De la Beche, 

 Edward Forbes, Andrew C. Ramsay, John Percy, Lyon 

 Playfair, Robert Hunt, and others were his associates. 

 At this time he was only thirty years of age, and had 

 returned from his training at the German mining 

 academies, and in 1844 had entered upon his long and 

 useful connection with the Survey and School of Mines. 



