41 o Presidentship of Sir Joseph D. Hooker 1874 



into the Royal Society in 1873. He received knighthood 

 in 1 88 1 and was made a baronet in 1889. 



Richard Quain, a physician in large consulting practice 

 in London, was the Crown nominee on the General Medical 

 Council from 1863 and was elected its President in 1891, 

 in which year also he was created baronet. He became 

 F.R.S. in 1871. He was probably most widely known as 

 the editor of a " Dictionary of Medicine." 



Lord Rayleigh is fortunately still present as a living and 

 active Fellow of the Royal Society and its most distinguished 

 physicist. Since he became a member of the Club he has 

 been successively the Secretary and President of the Royal 

 Society and continues to present to it the results of his 

 studies. 



Captain Frederick J. O. Evans during his earlier years in the 

 Navy was engaged in surveying the coasts of Torres Straits, 

 the Coral Sea and the Great Barrier Reef of Australia. At 

 that time our fleet was wholly wooden, but after the Crimean 

 war, when some of the vessels began to be constructed of 

 iron, the problem at once arose as to how the compasses 

 could be adjusted in such ships. To Archibald Smith (p. 344) , 

 son of James Smith of Jordanhill, already mentioned, and 

 Captain Evans we owe the practical solution of that delicate 

 problem. They jointly produced the Admiralty " Manual 

 for the Deviation of Compasses in Iron Ships." Evans 

 was appointed in 1855 Chief of the Compass Department 

 of the Admiralty, a position in which he was able to render 

 the most valuable services to the Navy. His scientific 

 claims were acknowledged by the Royal Society, which in 

 1862 elected him one of its Fellows. In 1874 he succeeded 

 to the important office of Hydrographer, and administered 

 it with great ability for ten years. He was made K.C.B. 

 in 1881. 



John Evans has been already alluded to as the nephew and 

 son-in-law of another member of the Club, John Dickinson 

 (p. 345). He was one of the most mentally alert of his com- 

 peers. His special studies lay in antiquities, from the posy 

 rings and coins of our great grandfathers back to the earliest 



