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Rh deserved popularity — Annual Dinner of the R.A. — The Royal Academy Club — Early days and now — The six dinners a year and their characteristics — Ascot Races — “What’s up?” — “Where is Ascot ?” — An indignant card- seller — Visit to Walker’s grave — Oxford — Selection of pictures sent in for the R.A. Exhibition — Last sending-in day — Emptying the funnel — Assembly of the Council of Ten with the President — “D” and “X” — The President’s admonition to the carpenters — The material first dealt with — “Out! out!” — Now a hush — Amid “bravo,” and more rarely clapping of hands — Doubt and deliberation : five for and five against — And so the work goes on — “The cellars of the condemned” — A painful and depressing spectacle — Enormously increased number of art-students — The hang- ing of the pictures — Process — Heroic rearrangements — President’s final walk through — Royal Society of Painters in Water-Colours — Made an Associate — J. D. Watson — The Brothers Dalziel — Full Member of Royal Water-Colour Society in 1883 — Characteristics — Duties of Members — Selection of drawings and exhibitions — Elections — Sir John Gilbert — President of the R.W.C.S. — Deputy Presi- dents — Speech in reply to the toast of “The Society”. 223–263