414 Presidentship of Sir Joseph D. Hooker 1875 



of 2 55. id. The subscription for the following year was 

 fixed at two guineas. The number of dinners during the 

 past year was 15, * at which the total attendance had been 

 246, made up of 210 members and 36 visitors ; the average 

 number at each dinner having been 16-5. 



One member was reported not to have attended once 

 during the year. This was Sir William Thomson. But 

 the Minute states that he " was re-elected." 



The death was announced of two members Thomas 

 Webster and Colonel Yorke. 



The two vacancies thus caused were filled from a list 

 of ten candidates by the election of Dr. Hugo Miiller and 

 William Pole. 



The question of the distribution of the dinners having 

 been considered, it was resolved that during the vacation 

 the Club should meet on the 22nd of July and the 2ist of 

 October, the other meetings to be generally as they were 

 arranged last year, but that there should be only one meeting 

 in January, while two should be held in May. 



At the meeting of the Club held on the gth December 

 1874 when ten members were present and General Smythe 

 occupied the chair, it was proposed, in accordance with the 

 resolution adopted last year, and was carried unanimously, 

 that Dr. Joseph Hooker, President of the Royal Society, 

 should be also President of the Club. He accordingly took 

 the chair at the meetings of the Club from that date onward. 

 At the Anniversary this year he had already been six months 

 in office ; but for custom's sake and perhaps to make assur- 

 ance doubly sure the meeting went through the formality 

 of again electing him to fill the chair in which he was at the 

 very time duly seated. The two Treasurers, Captain Galton 

 and Dr. Sibson, were re-elected to their office. 



1876. The Anniversary Meeting of 1876 was held on 

 June 22 and was attended by twenty-seven members, pre- 

 sided over by Dr. Hooker. The statement by the Treasurers 



1 There is no statement in the Minutes of the reason why the number 

 of dinners, which was 2 1 in the year before, should now have been reduced 

 to 15 (see p. 425). 



