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unanimously accepted that the number of ordinary members 

 of the Club should be increased by five. 



There were seven vacancies to be filled, and the result of 

 the voting was that John Hawkshaw, the Earl of Caithness, 

 Sir William Erie, Sir William Bovill, Richard Partridge, 

 Edward William Cooke, and Colonel William James Smythe 

 were elected. 



John Hawkshaw, civil engineer, was especially eminent 

 in connection with railways and bridges. He was elected 

 into the Royal Society in 1855, President of the Institution 

 of Civil Engineers in 1862-3, knighted in 1873, and President 

 of the British Association at the second meeting at Bristol 

 in 1875. 



James, I4th Earl of Caithness, had a taste for science 

 and made some inventions, including a steam carriage and 

 a gravitating compass. He was elected into the Royal 

 Society in 1862. 



The Right Honourable Sir William Erie, Fellow of New 

 College, Oxford, was a barrister of the Middle Temple who 

 entered Parliament in 1837 as member for the city of Oxford. 

 He became Lord Chief Justice of Common Pleas in 1859 

 but retired from that office in 1866. Next year he was 

 made a member of the Royal Commission on Trades' Unions, 

 and a year or two later he published a treatise on the law 

 relating to these Unions. He was elected into the Royal 

 Society in 1860. He died in 1880 at the age of eighty- 

 seven. 



Sir William Bovill, another barrister of the Middle Temple, 

 entered Parliament as member for Guildford. After being 

 Solicitor-General he succeeded Sir William Erie as Lord 

 Chief Justice. He became F.R.S. 1867. He died in 1873 

 at the age of fifty-nine. 



Richard Partridge, an able Fellow of the Royal College 

 of Surgeons, was elected into the Royal Society as far back 

 as 1837. He was now in the 62nd year of his age. 



Edward William Cooke, a genial Royal Academician, whose 

 landscapes every year were remarkable for the faithfulness 

 and beauty of their minute detail, and who used to amuse 



