1863 /. F. Bateman; Sir E. Head; Jas. Fergus son 391 



Head, James Fergusson and Joseph Hodgson were made 

 members. 



John F. Bateman was an eminent civil engineer, more 

 especially employed in providing water-supply to cities 

 and towns, both at home and abroad. The water- works 

 for Manchester and Glasgow were carried out by him. He 

 was President of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1878-9 

 and was elected into the Royal Society in 1860. 



Sir Edmund Walker Head, Fellow of Merton College, 

 Oxford, succeeded to the baronetcy in 1838. He was 

 appointed Governor of New Brunswick in 1847 an( ^ Governor- 

 General of Canada in 1854 an office which he held till 

 1861. 



James Fergusson, born in Ayr in 1808, spent his youth 

 in India as an indigo-planter, and had then an opportunity 

 of examining the ancient rock-cut temples and other archi- 

 tectural monuments of Hindustan, about which he published 

 in 1845 a well-illustrated work. He was led to a prolonged 

 study of architecture as an art, and wrote a handbook on 

 the subject which was eventually expanded into his great 

 " History of Architecture in all Countries from the Earliest 

 Times to the Present Day." He also devoted his attention 

 to fortifications, and had the prescience to recommend the 

 construction of earthworks rather than masonry in the 

 erection of forts. He lived in his later years in Rome, where 

 he was one of the best-known of the English community 

 there. His Handbook for Rome in Murray's series was the 

 best guide to that city, and he kept his narrative up to date 

 in successive editions. He was elected into the Royal 

 Society on June 4th this year, just three weeks before he 

 was chosen into the Club. 



Joseph Hodgson, surgeon, became a Fellow of the Royal 

 Society as far back as 1831. He appears to have lived and 

 practised in Birmingham, but his published medical work 

 led to his being elected President of the Medico-Chirurgical 

 Society in 1851, and the year after his admission as a member 

 of the Club he was chosen to be President of the Royal 

 College of Surgeons. 



