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good-humoured, even when he fell to criticising the last 

 lucubration of some contemporary from whom he differed 

 in opinion. 



Captain Wharton had a wide experience on surveying 

 vessels in all regions of the globe, and he thus became one 

 of the ablest hydrographers that our navy has ever had. 

 It was therefore with much satisfaction that those who 

 were interested in scientific oceanography saw him placed 

 at the head of the hydrographical department of the 

 Admiralty. He took great pains that the surveying officers 

 under him should be trained to make scientific observations 

 and should report to him what they might observe over 

 and above what was strictly involved in their hydrographic 

 work. Thus he arranged that not only books of reference, 

 but collections of named specimens in natural history, 

 particularly in rocks and minerals, should be supplied to 

 every surveying vessel. He was an invaluable member of 

 all Committees that had anything to do with the sea, such 

 as expeditions to the Arctic or Antarctic regions. He was 

 elected into the Royal Society in 1886, and to the end of 

 his too short life he proved a most efficient and helpful 

 member of that body. 



1885. The senior Treasurer of the Club, Dr. J. Gwyn 

 Jeffreys, died in January 1885 and a special meeting was 

 called to elect a successor. At this meeting, which was held 

 on February iQth, Warington Smyth, who was chairman, 

 proposed, and Admiral Sir G. H. Richards, now senior 

 Treasurer, seconded, that an expression be placed on 

 record of the Club's " deep sense of the loss it had sus- 

 tained in the death of their late senior Treasurer and 

 of their high appreciation of the excellent services rendered 

 by him during the period of nine years that he held the 

 Treasurership, together with their respect for his character 

 and warm regard for his memory." It was further pro- 

 posed that Robert H. Scott should be elected a Treasurer 

 of the Club. These propositions were unanimously agreed 

 to, and thus began Mr. Scott's long and devoted service to 

 the Club. 



