1921] on Advances in Astronomy 357 



been determined, as well as those of many fainter stars. This great 

 accession of knowledge of stellar distances carries with it a correspond- 

 ing increase with reference to the luminosities, sizes, masses, 

 densities, and velocities of stars of different spectral classes. 



[F. W. D.] 



ANNUAL MEETING, 



Monday, May 2, 1921. 



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

 Treasurer and Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Annual Report of the Committee of Visitors for the year 1920, 

 testifying to the continued prosperity and efficient management of 

 the Institution, was read and adopted. 



Fifty-four new Members were elected in 1920. 



Sixty-three Lectures and Nineteen Evening Discourses were 

 •delivered in 1920. 



The Books and Pamphlets presented in 1920 amounted to 163 

 volumes, making, with 465 volumes (including Periodicals bound) 

 purchased by the Managers, a total of 628 volumes added to the 

 Library in the year. 



Thanks were voted to the President, Treasurer, and the 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, M.V.O. C.B.E. 

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

 Secretary— Colonel E. H. Grove-Hills, C.M.G. D.Sc. F.R.S. 



Managers. Visitors. 



'The Kt. Hon. Lord Blyth, J.P. James Henry Batty. 



Horace T. Brown, LL.D. F.K.S. Alfred Carpmael, B.A. 



J. H. Balfour Browne, K.C. D.L. J.P. Frank Clowes, D.Sc, F.C.S. 



LL.D. Edward Dent, M.A. 



John Mitchell Bruce, C.V.O. M.D. LL.D. Lieut.-Gol. Henry E. Gaulter, F.R.G.S. 

 Sir James J. Dobbie, LL.D. D.Sc. F.R.S. George H. Griffin. 

 Percy Faraday Frankland, C.B.E. LL.D. W. E. Lawson Johnston. 



Sc.D. F.R.S. j John R. Leeson, J.P. M.D. CM. 

 Alexander H. Goschen. F. K. McClean, F.R.A.S. 



The Rt. Hon. Earl Iveagh, K.P. G.C.V.O. ; Edward Montefiore Micholls, M.A. 



LL.D. F.R.S. Hugh Munro Ross, B.A. 



H. R. Kempe, M.Inst.C.E. , Joseph Shaw, K.C. 



Sir Ernest Moon, K.C.B. K.C. LL.B. J Sidney Skinner, M.A. 



Alfred W. Porter, D.Sc. F.R.S. ! Thomas H. Sowerby, B.A. 



Sir James Reid, Bart., G.C.V.O. K.C.B. William Stone, M.A. F.L.S. 



M.D. LL.D. 

 Sir David Salomons, Bart., D.L. J.P. 



F.R.A.S. 

 Sir Alfred Yarrow, Bart., M.Inst.C.E. 

 The Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Younger, G.B.E. 



