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Annual Meeting. 



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ANNUAL MEETING, 



Saturday, May 1, 1886. 



Sir Frederick Bramwell, F.R.S. Honorary Secretary and Vice- 

 President, in the Chair. 



The Annual Eeport of the Committee of Visitors for the year 

 1885, testifying to the continued prosperity and efficient management 

 of the Institution, was read and adopted. The Real and Funded 

 Property now amounts to above 85,0007. entirely derived from the 

 Contributions and Donations of the Members. 



Twenty-six new Members paid their Admission Fees in 1885. 



Sixty-three Lectures and Nineteen Evening Discourses were 

 delivered in 1885. 



The Books and Pamphlets presented in 1885 amounted to about 

 354 volumes, making, with 464 volumes (including Periodicals bound) 

 purchased by the Managers, a total of 818 volumes added to the 

 Library in the year. 



Thanks were voted to the President, Treasurer, and the Honorary 

 Secretary, to the Committees of Managers and Visitors, and to the 

 Professors, for their valuable services to the Institution during the 

 past year. 



The following Gentlemen were unanimously elected as Officers 

 for the ensuing year : 



President— The Duke of Northumberland, E.G. D.C.L. LL.D. 

 Treasurer — Henry Pollock, Esq. 

 Secretary — Sir Frederick Bramwell, F.R.S. 



Managers. 



Sir Frederick Abel, C.B. D.C.L. F.R.S. 



Sir William Bowman, Bart. LL.D. F.R.S. 



Joseph Brown, Esq. Q.C. 



Sir James Crichton Browne, M.D. LL.D. F.R.S. 



William Crookes, Esq. F.R.S. 



Henry Doulton, Esq. 



Sir William Withey Gull, Bart. M.D. D.C.L. F.R.S. 



Ricrht Hon. The Lord Halsbury. 



WfUiam Huggins, Esq. D.C.L. LL.D. F.R.S. 



Alfred Bray Kempe, Esq. M.A. F.R.S. 



Sir John Lubbock, Bart. M.P. D.C.L. LL.D. F.R.S. 



Hugo W. Miiller, Esq. Ph.D. F.R.S. 



Sii- Frederick Pollock, Bart. M.A. 



John Rae, M.D. LL.D. F.R.S. 



Lord Arthur Russell. 



Visitors. 



Shelford Bidwell, Esq. M.A. 



Stephen Busk, Esq. 



Michael Carteighe, Esq. F.C.S. 



Arthur Herbert Church, Esq. M.A. F.C.S. 



Vicat Cole, Esq. R.A. 



William Henry Domville, Esq. 



James Edmunds, M.D. F.C.S. 



Charles Hawksley, Esq. M.LC.E. 



Alfred Gutteres Henriques, Esq. F.G.S. 



David Edward Hughes, Esq. F.R.S. 



George Matthey, Esq. F.R.S. 



John W. Miers, Esq, 



Lachlan Mackintosh Rate, Esq. M.A. 



William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Esq. F.R.S. 



Alexander Siemens, Esq. 



