392 Presidentship of 'Sir Edward Sabine 1864 



1864. The Anniversary Meeting held on 23rd June 1864 

 was attended by seventeen members, with General Sabine, 

 President, in the chair. The Treasurers stated that the 

 expenses of the past year amounted to 112 135. 6d. and 

 that there was a balance of 13 6s. 4d. against the Club. 

 The subscription for the following year was fixed at 2 los. 

 It was ordered that, as before, a dinner should be provided 

 on the third Thursday of each month during the vacation. 

 The number of dinners which had been held since the last 

 Anniversary was 21, the total number of persons who dined 

 was 279, of whom 56 were visitors, the average number of 

 persons at each dinner being 12*68. 



The new members elected at this meeting were Sir Henry 

 Holland, Bart., and Sir John Dalrymple Hay, Bart. 



Since he was a visitor to the Club in 1812 Dr. Henry 

 Holland had risen into the first rank of the physicians of 

 his day, had continued to travel abroad during vacation 

 time, and had not only written valuable notes on medical 

 matters, but had published volumes on his " Travels in 

 Albania and Thessaly," and Essays on scientific subjects. 

 He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1815, 

 created a baronet in 1853, and chosen President of the Royal 

 Institution in 1865, an office which he held till his death 

 in i373- It was during these later years that he wrote 

 his delightful volume of " Recollections of Past Life," from 

 which quotations have been given in preceding chapters. 



Admiral the Right Honourable Sir John Charles Dalrymple 

 Hay, G.C.B., entered the Navy when he was thirteen, and in 

 his earlier years saw much active service afloat and on shore. 

 In 1849 when he was eight-and-twenty he directed the 

 operations against two different pirate fleets in Chinese 

 waters, and destroyed them both. For this important 

 conquest he received the thanks of the Admiralty and a 

 service of plate from the merchants in China. He com- 

 manded the Hannibal in the Black Sea at the time of the 

 Crimean war and was present at the bombardment and 

 fall of Sebastopol. He afterwards went into Parliament 

 for some years. He retired from active service in 1870, 



