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opened in 1851, and he acquired a leading position among 

 the metallurgists of this country by his original work and 

 his excellent volumes on the Metals. In his later years he 

 was employed in supervising the ventilation of the Houses 

 of Parliament, where many of the members used to visit 

 him in his room and enjoy his racy talk. He became 

 F.R.S. in 1847. Thomas Graham, eminent as an original 

 discoverer in chemistry, which he taught first at the Ander- 

 sonian College in Glasgow and afterwards at University 

 College, London, was in 1855 appointed Master of the 

 Mint, an office which he held till his death in 1869. He 

 was elected into the Royal Society in 1836. 



The few foreign guests of the Club this year were all 

 gathered together on September yth at the invitation of 

 Lieut. -Colonel Sabine. The most notable of them was 

 Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, the German meteorologist who did 

 so much to place our conceptions of the movements of the 

 atmosphere on a scientific basis. With happy forethought 

 Colonel Sabine had invited Captain Fitzroy to be one of 

 the party, and he included also Hermann and Adolf Schla- 

 gintweit. The host himself being a skilled physicist, we 

 may be sure that there was much pleasant converse on 

 atmospheric problems both on land and sea. 



Colonel George Everest, who dined on March 23rd, had 

 become widely known for his survey of Java and the work 

 which he controlled as Surveyor-general of India. In recogni- 

 tion of his labours in that country the highest peak of the 

 Himalayan chain, which is also the loftiest part of the 

 earth's surface, was named Mount Everest after him. The 

 Navy was well represented at the Club's table by Admiral 

 Moresby and Sir Thomas Sabine Pasley. Literature too 

 was not forgotten, for the novelist Samuel Warren was 

 a guest, and John Delane continued to be a welcome 

 visitor. 



On November 30th this year there was again a change 

 in the Presidentship of the Royal Society. Lord Rosse 

 retired from the office which he had held for six years, 

 and his place was taken by John, second Baron Wrottesley. 



