356 Presidentship of the Earl of Rosse 1849 



Charles Holland, Lord Chief Baron Pollock, and Sir William 

 Burnett. 



J. C. Morris, after a short stay in the Navy as a mid 

 shipman, entered the Madras Civil Service, and distinguished 

 himself by acquiring the Telugu language, of which he 

 eventually published a dictionary. He was elected into 

 the Royal Society in 1831. He returned to England in 

 1846. Charles Holland, physician, became F.R.S. in 1837. 

 Sir Frederick Pollock, distinguished as a barrister, entered 

 Parliament in 1831, and after being Attorney-general was 

 in 1844 made Chief Baron of the Exchequer a position 

 which he held for two-and-twenty years, when he retired 

 and was made a baronet. He had been elected into the 

 Royal Society as far back as 1816. Sir William Burnett, 

 who had been a visitor thirteen years before, was present 

 as a naval surgeon at the battles of St. Vincent, the 

 Nile, and Trafalgar. Afterwards he was for many years 

 Physician- general of the Navy. He was knighted in 1831 

 and elected into the Royal Society in 1833. He lived 

 till 1861. 



It has been noticed in the records of the last year or two 

 that the existence of a recess at Easter and of another at 

 Whitsuntide was at length recognised at the Club by 

 at least the Treasurer, who usually has written against the 

 dates in question the reason of the smallness or absence 

 of attendance. But he was now at last empowered to go 

 a step further, and to cease to provide dinners during 

 these recesses. He also dropped two dinners during the 

 fortnight of the Christmas recess. The precedent set 

 last year of omitting a meeting so as to join the Royal 

 Society's dinner in connection with the new arrangement 

 for the election of Fellows was followed again this year. 

 On this occasion the Society appears to have dined on the 

 evening of the election day, Thursday, 7th June, and the 

 members of the Club, instead of holding their own weekly 

 dinner as usual, joined that of the general body of the Fellows. 

 The Treasurer, in recording this arrangement, adds that 

 the company numbered thirty. 



