| Description | Diagram showing the table arrangement and seating positions of 102 named Fellows and their guests at the Society's anniversary dinner at Willis's Rooms, 26 King Street, St. James's Square [London]. Headed: '1883 (Prof. Huxley's handwriting)' [Thomas Henry Huxley]. Among the guests listed is 'The American Minister', presumably James Russell Lowell (1819-1891), American poet and diplomat who served as Minister [Ambassador] to the Court of St. James, 1880-1885 and 'Fung Yee', who was a Secretary to the Chinese Legation. Endorsed in pencil verso: 'Table - 1883'. |