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indebted to Dr. H. Wilde, F.R.S., for the time and attention he 

 bestowed in undertaking the business arrangements and super- 

 vision of them. The cost, amounting to £,\\o. 13s. 5d., has 

 been charged to the Wilde Endowment Fund. 



It is with great regret that the Council report that 

 Mr. Arthur McDougall has intimated his intention of 

 resigning the Treasure! ship at the end of the present session, 

 and desires to record its thanks for his care of the Society's 

 finances during the eight years that he has held ofifice. 

 Mr. McDougall has been reluctantly compelled to take this 

 step by the urgency of his health, the state of which has for 

 some time made him wish to be relieved of the duties of his 

 office, and he latterly only continued to discharge these at the 

 earnest request of his fellow members of Council and at some 

 sacrifice to himself 



Stanislao Cannizzaro, an honorary member of the Society 

 from the year 1888, was born in 1826, and was a native of 

 Palermo, in Sicily. After having studied medicine in his native 

 town for four years, he turned his attention to chemistry, and 

 worked at Pisa as assistant to Piria. On the outbreak of the 

 Sicilian revolution, in 1848, he acted as an officer of artillery, 

 and was elected a Deputy to the Sicilian Parliament. When the 

 revolution was crushed in the next year, he escaped to Marseilles,, 

 and made his way to Paris. 



In Paris he worked in Chevreul's laboratory, making an 

 investigation along with Cloez of the substance cyananide. In 

 the year 1851 he was appointed Professor of Chemistry at 

 Alexandria; from there he went to Genoa in 1855, and to 

 Palermo in 1861. In 1871 he was elected to the Chair of 

 Chemistry at Rome, and this position he held to the end of his 

 life. He served his country also as a member of the Italian 

 Senate, of which he became Vice-President, and as a niember of 

 the Council of Public Instruction. He died in the year 1910. 



