xlii Annual Report of the Coiincil. 



To the end of his life Huggins remained remarkably acces- 

 sible to new ideas, and when radium was discovered he under- 

 took the task of photographing the spectrum of its spontaneous 

 luminosity. 



He became President of the Royal Society, and indeed 

 received almost every scientific honour that could be conferred 

 upon him. 



In 1897 he was made a Knight Commander of the Bath, 

 and on the foundation of the Order of Merit, at the beginning of 

 King Edward's reign, he was one of the first to be enrolled. 



He was elected an Honorary Member of this Society irv 

 1 869. 



H.S. 



