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There were nine members whose subscriptions had not been 

 received. When these were paid the adverse balance would 

 be considerably reduced. But the meeting resolved to 

 increase the subscription for the ensuing year to 2 los. 

 The number of dinners during the past year was 21, attended 

 by 288 diners, of whom 62 were visitors ; the average 

 attendance at each dinner was 13*7. 



It was resolved that in future the meetings of the Club 

 should take place at half-past six o'clock ; that the number 

 of ordinary members should be limited to fifty (instead of 

 forty-five), and that the election of the President of the 

 Club should take place at the first meeting in December 

 instead of at the Anniversary. The object of the last of 

 these resolutions was to obviate the delay of six months 

 in electing a President for the Club at each change in the 

 Presidentship of the Royal Society. 



The death of Count Strzelecki was announced. To the 

 vacancy thus caused the Meeting added seven others 

 " one from the appointment of General Lefroy to the Gover- 

 norship of Bermuda " ; x one from the election of Professor 

 Williamson to the Foreign Secretaryship of the Royal 

 Society and his transference to the ex-officio list ; and five 

 others consequent upon the resolution to increase the 

 ordinary membership to fifty. From a list of eighteen 

 candidates the following eight were elected : Frederick 

 J. Bramwell, Frederick John Owen Evans, John Evans, 

 Richard Quain, Lord Rayleigh, Henry Enfield Roscoe, John 

 Scott Burdon Sanderson, Sir William Thomson. 



Frederick Joseph Bramwell started in 1853 as a Civil 

 Engineer and rose to eminence in the profession. He was 

 chosen President of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers 

 in 1874, of the Civil Engineers in 1884. He was also Presi- 

 dent of the British Association when it met at Bath in 1888. 

 He took an active interest in the Royal Institution and was 

 chosen its Honorary Secretary in 1885. He was elected 



1 It seems to have been forgotten that this vacancy had already been 

 filled up at the Anniversary in 1871. The General's governorship of 

 Bermuda did not terminate till 1877. 



