Sketch of the rise and progress of the Royal Society Club.

  • William Henry Smyth
Date:
1860
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Credit: Sketch of the rise and progress of the Royal Society Club. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    of July, 1860. In this list the names are ranged in the order of seniority, that is, according to the date of the election of each person; and, where two or three happened to come off on the same day, they are placed in the order they were balloted for. This disposition is necessarily exact, because it is from the eldership thus shown that the Chairman for the meeting is selected, when- ever the President happens to be absent {see ante, page 15) :— 1820. The Ven. Archdeacon Burney. 1827. Dr. Peter Mark Roget. — ]\Iajor-General Sabine. 1833. Sir Roderick Impey Murchison. 1834. Mr. George Rennie. 1835. Vice-Adtniral Smyth. — Sir John Rennie. 1837. Dr. Thomas Mayo. 1840. Professor Wheatstone. — Mr. James Walker. 1841. Dr. Charles G. B. Daubeny. 1843. Rear-Admiral Sir James C. Ross. 1844. Lord Lyttelton. 1846. Mr. John Dickinson. 1848. The Earl of Rosse {ex officio). — Sir Frederick Pollock {Chief Baron). — ]\Ir. Thomas Bell. 1849. Dr. Charles Holland. 1851. Sir Benjamin C. Brodie. 1852. Mr. John Peter Gassiot. 1854. Dr. William Sharpey. — Major-General Monteith. — Dr. John Percy. — Mr. Thomas Graham. — Lord Wrottesley {ex officio). 1856. Dr. Bence Jones, — The Rev. John Barlow. — Mr. Warren De la Rue. 1857. Colonel Philip Yorke, — Dr. Arthur Farre. — Professor James J. Sylvester. — Captain Younghusband. — Thomas Webster. 1858. Mr. Charles Brooke. — Mr. William Bowman. — Sir Rowland HiU. — Count Strzelecki. — IMr. William Fergusson. — ]\Ir. Warington W. Smyth. 1860. Sir Henry Rawlinson. — ]\Ir. William Fairbairn. — Captain Galton, R.E. — Sir William Armstrong. — Professor John Tyndall.