384 Presidentship of Sir Benjamin Erodie 1861 



John Tyndall, at the time when he became a member of 

 the Club, had been for seven years Professor of Natural 

 Philosophy at the Royal Institution, where he had estab- 

 lished his reputation as a brilliant lecturer and one of 

 the most popular exponents of science in his day. He 

 had already published papers on magnetism and other 

 subjects, but the main body of his work was still to be done 

 in the years that lay before him. The Royal Society, 

 however, had elected him a Fellow in 1852 while he was 

 still teacher of mathematics at Oueenwood College, Hamp- 

 shire. In 1860 he succeeded George Gabriel Stokes as 

 Professor of Physics at the Royal School of Mines, where 

 he had his friend Huxley as one of his colleagues. With 

 Huxley he embarked on his investigations into Glacier 

 motion, and returning to the Alps year after year he enriched 

 the literature of the subject with some picturesquely written 

 volumes. 



1861. At the Anniversary Meeting on 2yth June 1861 

 there were twenty members present, and General Sabine 

 took the chair. The Treasurers informed the meeting that 

 the expenses of the past year amounted to 153 135. lod. 

 and that there was an adverse balance of 23 i8s. lod. 

 To this debt there had to be added the cost of printing the 

 History of the Club, which was 46 2s., so that the total sum 

 due by the Club was 70 os. lod. " It was resolved that 

 hereafter each visitor be charged fifteen shillings for dinner 

 instead of ten as heretofore." * The subscription for the 

 ensuing year was fixed at three pounds. Resignations 

 were received from George Rennie, Thomas Bell and Sir 

 Henry Rawlinson. Lord Rosse was transferred to the 

 ex-qfficio list. 



Four vacancies were declared, and these were filled by 

 the election of John Lubbock, William Allen Miller, Dr. 

 Edward Frankland, and William Spottiswoode. 



1 In the minutes of this Anniversary Meeting it is stated that "Each 

 visitor has cost the Club about 7 shillings, that is i& 4/." It would 

 thus appear that visitors had still to pay for their 'dinner, and that the 

 charge to them was now not far below the cost to each member of the 

 Club, which, including annual subscription, was about seventeen shillings. 



