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logical Committee of the Board of Trade, and subsequently 

 of the Meteorological Office. With equal energy he in his 

 later years pursued an investigation of heredity, and pro- 

 duced volume after volume, in which, marshalling the facts 

 which he laboriously accumulated, he indicated the con- 

 clusions to which they pointed. He thus became the 

 founder of the modern, and to the human race most im- 

 portant, science of Eugenics. His true place in the bede- 

 roll of science was perhaps hardly recognised in his life- 

 time. The Royal Society indeed, which he joined in 1860, 

 awarded him a Royal Medal in 1886, and was just in time 

 before his death to bestow on him the Copley Medal on 

 30th November 1910. The unexpected honour of knight- 

 hood was also conferred on him shortly before the close of 

 his life. These marks of appreciation cheered the last 

 months of his long and laborious career. Towards the end 

 he suffered much from asthma, and found the air of the 

 Haslemere district best suited for that distressing ailment. 

 He died there in 1911, aged 89. 



1867. The Anniversary Meeting of 1867 took place on 

 June 27th and was attended by twenty members, General 

 Sabine being in the chair. The two Treasurers are recorded 

 as having been of the company and to have " submitted the 

 following statement of the accounts of the Club." But, as 

 in 1863, the space which they reserved for the " Statement " 

 remains still blank as they left it. They both tendered their 

 resignation at this meeting, and Captain Galton, R.E., and 

 Dr. Sibson were elected in their stead. The subscription 

 for the following year was again fixed at 2 2s. Seven 

 absentees were reported. The absence of five of them was 

 condoned, but Dr. Frankland and Sir John Lubbock were 

 not re-elected. The number of dinners since the previous 

 Anniversary was 22 ; 236 members and 50 visitors attended 

 them, the average number at each dinner being 14. The 

 same arrangement of autumn dinners as in recent years 

 was adopted. 



There was a list of no fewer than thirteen candidates 

 waiting for election. It was accordingly proposed and 



