MEETINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY. 



1890. 



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ANNUAL MEETING. 



Tmsday, March VSth. 



The President (Professor Kernot) in the chair. 

 The President announced that the retiring Office-bearers 

 — Professor W. C. Kernot, M.A., C.E., President ; J. Cosmo 

 Newbery, C.M.G., B. Sc, Vice-President; E. J. White, 

 F.RA.S., Vice-President ; James Jamieson, M.D., Treasurer; 

 J. E. Neild, M.D., Librarian; H. K. Rusden, Hon. Secretary; 

 and Professor W. Baldwin Spencer, M.A., Hon. Secretary, 

 had been nominated by Mr. White and Dr. Neild for 

 re-election. He understood that Dr. Jamieson was pro- 

 ceeding to England, and was not able to act as Treasurer, 

 but Mr. Blackett had kindly consented to act in his absence. 

 The retiring Members of the Council had also been 

 nominated by Mr. White and Dr. Neild for re-election. A 

 vacancy had been caused by the lamented death of Mr. Steel,^ 

 who would have been one of the non-retiring Members of 

 Council on that occasion. T. R. Lyle, M.A., Professor of 



