306 Annual Meeting. [May 1, 



ANNUAL MEETING, 



Tuesday, May 1, 1888. 



Sir Frederick Bramwell, D.C.L. F.E.S. Honorary Secretary and 

 Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Annual Report of the Committee of Visitors for the year 

 1887, testifying to the continued prosperity and efficient management 

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

 Proi)eity now amounts to above 81,000Z. entirely derived from the 

 Contributions and Donations of the Members. 



Forty-one new Members were elected in 1887. 



Sixty-three Lectures and Nineteen !^lvening Discourses were 

 delivered in 1887. 



The Books and Pamphlets presented in 1887 amounted to about 

 283 volumes, making, with 4G3 volumes (including Periodicals bound) 

 purchased by the Managers, a total of 746 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— Sii- Frederick Bramwell, D.C.L. F.K.S. M. Inst. C.E. 



Visitors. 



Managers. 



Captain W. de W. Abney, R.E. F.R.S. 

 William Anderson, Esq. M.Inst. C.E. 



George Berkley, Esq. M. Inst. C.E. 



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



Vicat Cole, Esq. R.A. j Benjamin Baker, Esq. M. Inst. C.E. 



Frank Crisp, Esq. LL.B. B.A. F.L.S. ! John Birkett, Esq. F.R.C.S. 



William Crookes, Esq. F.R.S. \ Michael Carteighe, Esq. F.C.S. 



Warren de la Rue, Esq. M.A. D.C.L. F.R.S. | James Farmer, Esq. J. P. 



Sir Henrv Doulton. j John Piggin Fearfield, Esq. 



John Hall Gladstone, Esq. Ph.D. F.R.S. 



Colonel James A. Grant, C.B. C.S.I. F.R.S. 



The Rt. Hon. Sir William R. Grove, D.C.L. F.R.S, 



Rev. John Macnaught, M.A. 



Sir Frederick Pollock, Bart. M.A. 



William Henry Preece, Esq. F.R.S. M.Inst. C.E. 



John Rae, M.D. LL.D. F.R.S. I Basil Woodd Smith, Esq. F.R.A.S. 



Sir Henry Thompson, F.R.C.S. { James Wimshurst, Esq, 



Ernest H. Goold, Esq. F.Z.S. 

 Charles Hawksley, Esq. M.Inst. C.E. 

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

 Thomas John Maclagan, M.D. 

 Lachlan Mackintosh Rate, Esq. M.A. 

 John Bell Sedgwick, Esq. J.P. F.R.G.S. 



