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Index 



Royal Society Club, continued, : 

 negative, 194 ; at least three - 

 fourths of the votes of those 

 present required for election, 380, 

 480. 



Membership at first not entirely 

 restricted to Fellows of the Royal 

 Society, 10, n, 13, 34, 42, 47, 68 ; 

 Ordinary, limited at first to forty, 

 28; in 1867 increased by five, 

 396 ; in 1874 increased to fifty, 

 409 ; in 1901 augmented to 

 sixty-six on the incorporation of 

 the Philosophical Club, 479 ; 

 Honorary, at first conferred on 

 donors of venison, turtles, etc., 

 to the dinner-table, 38 ; this 

 practice abolished after lasting 

 twenty-nine years, 146 ; Honor- 

 ary membership revived in 1868 

 in favour of octogenarians, 397 ; 

 and in 1886 in favour of every 

 one who has filled the President- 

 ship of the Royal Society, 444 ; 

 Ex-officio, created for the Presi- 

 dent and Officers of the Royal 

 Society and the Astronomer 

 Royal, 93, 96, 200, 275 ; mem- 

 bers of this class when no longer 

 holding office in the Royal 

 Society were transferred to the 

 Ordinary List, 377 ; Supernumer- 

 ary, created to include members 

 having to go abroad for a time, 

 311, 313 (see pp. 189, 304). 



Treasurership held by a single 

 person from the beginning up to 

 1858, when two Treasurers were 

 appointed, 377 ; a third added 

 on the incorporation of the Philo- 

 sophical Society, 480. 



Entrance-fee, originally six shil- 

 lings, raised in 1 750 to a guinea, 39; 

 increased in 1831 to two guineas, 

 211, Treasurer's Fund at first 

 small and replenished by occa- 

 sional levies of 55. and upwards 

 during the year, 54, 55, 59, 78, 

 88, 147, 177; establishment of 

 the present practice of levying 

 a variable annual subscription at 

 the Anniversary Meeting, 182, 

 1 86, 189, 193 ; Four pounds, 



the highest annual contribution, 

 reached twice, 256, 307. 



Absentees forfeit membership, 

 28, 282, 373, 441, 446; disin- 

 clination to enforce this rule 

 strictly, 262, 272, 363, 373, 379, 

 380. 



Meetings held every week 

 throughout the year for the first 

 sixty years. Annual General 

 Meetings or Anniversaries, always 

 held in summer, 33, 37, etc. For 

 the stages in the gradual diminu- 

 tion of the number of ordinary 

 meetings by the encroachment of 

 holidays, see under Easter, Whit- 

 suntide, Christmas and Vacation. 

 Steps taken to exclude strangers 

 from the meetings, 27, 28, 93, 304, 

 322. 



Dinners, bills of fare at, 22, 26, 

 33. 39. 69, 78, 83, 92, 102, IOQ, 

 in, 123, 124, 169; slow intro- 

 duction of vegetables into, 92, 

 1 02, in, 123; gradual advance 

 of hour of, 25, 163, 194, 257, 364, 

 409 ; eighteenpence the original 

 price of, 9 ; gradual increase of 

 cost of, 58, 82, 126, 137, 152, 162, 

 182, 205, 243, 335, 337, 384, 390 ; 

 dessert at dinner first provided by 

 the Club, 334. 



A Frenchman's account of a 

 dinner, 169 ; John Playf air's de- 

 scription of another, 159. 



Decrease in the numberof meet- 

 ings in the course of the year, 

 425 ; fewer foreigners as guests 

 of the Club, 426 ; change in the 

 composition of the membership, 

 26-8; proposed reforms, 428. 



Visitors to the Club not at first 

 distinguished from members in 

 the dinner-registers, 26 ; for many 

 years paid for their dinner, 27. 

 In 1831 a rule was made that 

 foreigners should not be called 

 upon to pay, 304 ; this rule re- 

 scinded in 1841, 331 ; visitors 

 sometimes " invited by the Club," 

 298 ; visitors' names to be written 

 down by members who introduce 

 them, 206, 471. 



