456 Presidentship of SirW. Thomson (Lor dKehin) 1890-] 



so great a hindrance to his visits to London, he was now 

 able to attend to his duties at the Royal Society and at the 

 Club with hardly less assiduity than that of many of his pre- 

 decessors who resided in London. He used to say that he 

 could sleep in an express train even better than in his own 

 bed. Hence, after a night journey he would appear quite 

 fresh at a Council meeting, and if need be, another night 

 journey would bring him in time for his morning lecture at 

 the Glasgow University, after an absence of only a single day. 

 1891. The combined dinner of this Club with the Philo- 

 sophical Club, which was agreed to on December i8th, 1890, 

 took place on I2th March following, with Sir William Thom- 

 son in the chair. There were forty-three persons present, 

 consisting of nineteen who were members of both Clubs, 

 five who belonged to the Philosophical Club only, seventeen 

 who belonged to the Royal Society Club only, and two 

 guests. As this meeting was the herald of the ultimate 

 fusion of the two Clubs, the names of the company may 

 be given here : 



Sir William Thomson 



Professor F. Fuller (guest) 

 Professor Michael Foster 

 John Evans 

 Dr. Hugo Muller 

 Sir William Bowman 

 Sir Frederick Abel 

 Francis Galton 

 Rev. T. G. Bonney 

 Professor James Dewar 

 Professor A. W. Williamson 

 Lord Rayleigh 

 Sir George Stokes 

 Sir Frederick Bramwell 

 Professor W. G. Adams 

 Archibald Geikie 

 William Crookes 

 Nevil Story Maskelyne 

 Professor Odling 

 Captain Abney 

 Professor A. Rucker 



- f William T. Blanford 

 I* Professor Hughes 



o 1 Sir George M. Humphry 

 50 General Strachey 



* [Professor J . W. Judd, Treasurer 



Lazurus Fletcher 

 Rev. H. Gurney (guest) 

 Dr. George Harley 

 Alfred B. Kempe 

 Dr. J. H. Gilbert 

 Dr. William J. Russell 

 Professor Edward T. Thorpe 

 Dr. Lauder Brunton 

 Professor J. H. Gladstone 

 Captain W. J. L. Wharton 

 J. Norman Lockyer 

 Sir Richard Quain 

 W. H. M. Christie 

 John Hopkinson 

 Sir William Savory 

 J. W. Hulke 1 

 VRobert H. Scott i 



-Treasurers 



