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February. At the same meeting the sad news was announced 

 of the death of his colleague, Professor Henry Smith, who was 

 a much esteemed member of the Club. At the dinner 

 on I5th March, when Warren De la Rue was chairman, the 

 visitors included Professor Struve, Professor Gould, Mr. 

 Creak of the Admiralty, Professor Morse, and Howard 

 Grubb, famed for his astronomical instruments. At this 

 dinner the Marquess of Salisbury was present as a member 

 of the Club. 



1884. The Anniversary Meeting in 1884, held on June igth, 

 was attended by twenty members, and in the absence of the 

 President the chair was taken by Warren De la Rue. The 

 expenditure of the past year was reported by the Treasurers 

 to have amounted to 77 8s. 3d., leaving in their hands a 

 balance of 73 175. 2d. The subscription for the following 

 year was fixed at i. The number of dinners during the 

 past year had again been twelve, and those who attended 

 them numbered 178, being 159 members and 19 visitors. 

 The largest attendance at any dinner was 23, the smallest 

 eight. 



The death of Sir Charles W. Siemens was announced. 



Dr. T. A. Hirst expressed his wish to resign. There were 

 consequently two vacancies. One of these was promptly 

 filled by the re-election of Professor Sylvester, who having 

 resigned his Professorship at Baltimore had returned to 

 England and was desirous to be transferred from the Super- 

 numerary list to that of the Ordinary membership. The 

 remaining vacancy was filled from a list of nine candidates 

 by the election of John Whitaker Hulke. It was resolved 

 to retain the same number and distribution of the dinners 

 throughout the coming session as had been arranged for 

 last year. 



J. W. Hulke, one of the surgeons who had served with 

 the British army in the Crimea, was afterwards attached 

 to the Middlesex Hospital, and was elected in 1893 President 

 of the Royal College of Surgeons. He devoted much of 

 his leisure time to the pursuit of vertebrate palaeontology, 

 and wrote some important papers on the structure of the 



