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interest in the proceedings of the Senate of London 

 University, of which he was a member. His contributions 

 to medical science were of value, and were gathered 

 together some years after his death and published in a 

 collected edition. In the course of two years after his 

 admission into the Club he was chosen one of its two 

 Treasurers, and filled this office for nine years until his 

 death in 1876. 



1866. At the Anniversary Meeting held on June 28th 

 1866 there were present twenty-one members, and General 

 Sabine presided. The Treasurers submitted their financial 

 statement for the past year, which showed the expenditure 

 to have been 99 135. yd., leaving a balance in hand of 

 6 95. lod. The subscription for the following year was 

 fixed at two guineas. The number of dinners since last 

 Anniversary had been 22, attended in all by 276 persons, 

 of whom 57 were visitors, the average number at each dinner 

 being 12-5. The autumn dinners were again fixed for the 

 third Thursday of July, August and October. 



There was one vacancy caused by the resignation of 

 Captain Younghusband. It was filled by the election of 

 Francis Gait on. 



This accomplished man of science was born in 1822. In 

 his youth he studied medicine at the Birmingham Hospital 

 and King's College, London, and graduated from Trinity 

 College, Cambridge, in 1844. Soon thereafter he began to 

 travel as a scientific observer and explorer, first in Northern 

 Africa, and then, extending his j ourneys in the Dark Continent, 

 he in 1850 visited tracts in South Africa that were then 

 unknown to Europeans. He published his observations in 

 that region in his " Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical 

 South Africa." This work and his admirable volume on 

 the " Art of Travel " showed him to be full of practical 

 wisdom and resource as a traveller, and his directions and 

 suggestions have been of great value to subsequent explorers. 

 For many years he devoted himself with much zeal to the 

 development of meteorology as an observational science, 

 and was a most active and useful member of the Meteoro- 



