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Annual Meeting. 



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ANNUAL MEETING, 



Monday, May 1, 1899. 



The Duke of Northumberland, F.S.A., President, in the Chair. 



The Annual Eeport of the Committee of Visitors for the year 

 1898, testifying to the continued prosperity and efficient management 

 of the Institution, was read and adopted, and the Eeport on the Davy 

 Faraday Eesearch Laboratory of the Eoyal Institution, which accom- 

 panied it, was also read. 



Fifty-eight new Members were elected in 1898. 



Sixty-three Lectures and Nineteen Evening Discourses were 

 delivered in 1898. 



The Books and Pamphlets presented in 1898 amounted to about 

 271 volumes, making, with 657 volumes (including Periodicals bound) 

 purchased by the Managers, a total of 928 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, F.S.A. 



Treasurer — Sir James Crichton-Browne, M.D. LL.D. F.E.S. 



Secretary— Sir Frederick Bramwell, Bart. D.C.L. LL.D. F.E.S. 

 M. Inst. C.E. 



Managers. 

 Sir Frederick Abel, Bart. K.C.B. D.C.L. LL.D. 



F.R.S. 

 Sir William Crookes, F.R.S. 

 The Duke of Devonshire, K.G. M.A. D.C.L. 



LL.D. F.R.S. 

 The Right Hon. the Earl of Halsbury, M.A. 



OPT F R S 

 Donald William Charles Hood, M.D. F.R.C.P. 

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

 The Right Hon. Lord Kelvin, G.C.V.O. D.C.L. 



LL.D. F.R.S. 

 Alfred B. Kempe, Esq. M.A. Treas.R.S. 

 Hugh Leonard, Esq. M. Inst. C.E. 

 Sir Andrew Noble, K.C.B. F.R.S. 

 The Right Hon. The Marquis of Salisbury, 



K.G. M.A. D.C.L. LL.D. F.R.S. 

 Alexander Siemens, Esq. M. Inst. C.E. 

 Basil Woodd Smith, Esq, F.R.A.S. F.S.A. 

 William Hugh Spottiswoode. Esq. F.C.S. 

 Sir Henry Thompson, Bart. F.R.C.S. F.R.A.S. 



Visitors. 



William Henry Bennett, Esq. F.R.C.S. 



Henry Arthur Blyth, Esq. J.P. 



Maures Horner, Esq. J.P. F.R.A.S. 



Edward Kraftmeier, Esq. 



Lieut.-Colonel Llewellyn Wood Longstaft", 



F.R.G.S. 

 Frank McClean, Esq. M.A. LL.D. F.R.S. 



F.R.A.S. 

 Henry Francis Makins, Esq. F.R.G.S. 

 T. Lambert Mears, Esq. M.A. LL.D. 

 Rudolph Messel, Esq. Ph.D. F.C.S. 

 Lachlan Mackintosh Rate, Esq. M.A. 

 John Callander Ross, Esq. 

 William James Russell, Esq. Ph.D. F.R.S. 

 Alfred Gordon Salamon, Esq. F.C.S. F.I.C. 

 Sir James Vaughan, B.A. J.P. 

 John Jewell Vezey, Esq. F.R.M.S. 



