358 Presidentship of the Earl of Rosse 1850 



1850. The Anniversary of 1850 took place on June 27, 

 when there were present : 



The Earl of Rosse, President 

 Marquess of Northampton Lord Lyttelton 

 Lord Teignmouth Sir George T. Staunton 



Sir William Burnett Professor Charles Wheatstone 



Dr. Roget Robert Edwards Broughton 



John Disney Hart Davis 



Dr. Mayo Lieut. -Colonel Leake 



Samuel H. Christie Charles Elliott 



George Rennie John C. Morris 



John Dickinson Dr. Charles Holland 



Thomas Galloway Robert Brown 



Lieut. -Colonel Sabine Dr. Paris 



Thomas Bell Captn. W. H. Smyth 



George Dollond 

 Joseph Smith, Treasurer 



The expenses of the past year were stated to have amounted 

 to 120 175. 6d., leaving a surplus in the Treasurer's hands 

 of 5 145. 5d. The contribution for the ensuing year was 

 again fixed at two pounds. 



Seven members had not attended any meeting since the 

 last Anniversary, but no vacancy was declared to arise. 

 Archdeacon Jennings had died since the previous annual 

 General Meeting, and the Dean of Hereford had resigned 

 his membership of the Club. Two vacancies thus occurred, 

 and a third had been left over from the previous year. There 

 were two candidates on the list, and on a ballot Sir George 

 Back was alone elected, leaving two vacancies for considera- 

 tion at next Anniversary. 



The new member, since he appeared at the Club in 1836, 

 had received from the Royal Geographical Society in 1837 

 its two medals in recognition of the value of his services 

 in the exploration of Arctic seas and lands. He was knighted 

 in 1839 an d the Royal Society elected him a Fellow in 1847. 



The attendance this j^ear was smaller than it had been for 

 some years. Only 257 persons dined (221 members and 36 

 visitors), not a third of the number forty years before. But 

 the reduced number of dinners may account for most of 

 this diminution. 



