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amended and adopted should be transmitted to the Joint- 

 Committee with the request that this Committee would 

 carry out the details of the arrangements required for the 

 amalgamation of the Clubs. 



It was further decided that in the coming session the 

 meetings of the Club should be on the days of meeting of 

 the Royal Society, with the addition of one meeting in 

 October. The subscription for the coming session was 

 fixed at i los. 



The two Treasurers of the Royal Society Club, R. H. Scott 

 and Major MacMahon, were reappointed. To them was 

 added the Treasurer of the Philosophical Club, Professor 

 W. G. Adams, so that henceforth the united Club would 

 have three Treasurers. 



Thus, after ten years of consideration the two Clubs were 

 at last joined into one. The name of the older Club was 

 retained as the ordinary designation of the united body, 

 but with the addition, when desirable, of a line with words 

 expressing that it includes the younger institution incor- 

 porated with it. The united membership was thus greatly 

 increased in number and in strength. It consisted of 

 sixty-five ordinary members, nine ex-officio members, in- 

 cluding the President, and seventeen honorary members. 

 Not only were the two Clubs united to each other, they were 

 also in some respects more closely bound up with the pro- 

 ceedings of the Royal Society. The arrangement that 

 members of the Club should dine together on the evening 

 of every afternoon when an ordinary meeting of the Society 

 takes place at once removed the long-standing inconvenience 

 of the difficulty of remembering whether a meeting-day of 

 the Society happened also to be a day on which one or other 

 of the Clubs was to meet. Henceforth there would always 

 be a Club dinner to follow the meeting of the Society. 

 Moreover, these dinners which had once been held every 

 week in the year but had in course of time dwindled down 

 to twelve in the year, now immediately rose to twenty- one. 

 The number has since been augmented, so that in the year 

 1916-17 it is now twenty-six, exactly half the number which 



