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a member of the Committee for the Regioual Bureau, to catalogue the 

 literature on Indian and Ceylonese Meteorology for the International 

 Catalogue of Scientific Literature, and has in other ways shown his 

 knowledge and interest in the progress of Science in India. 



Mr. R. C. Hamilton, I.C.S., and Lala Shyam Snnderlal Srivas- 

 tavya, were ballotted for and elected Ordinary Members. 



The Council reported that in consequence of the deaths of : — Sir 

 Monier Monier- Williams, Kt., K.C.I.E., Sir William Henry Flower, 

 K.C.B., and Sir Edward Franklaiid, K.C.B., there were now four 

 vacancies in the list of the Honorary Members. The Council therefore 

 recommended the four following gentlemen for election as Honorary 

 Members at the next meeting. 



Professor Edwin Ray Lankester was educated at St. Paul's School, 

 London, and Christ Church College, Oxfoi^d. He was appointed Fellow 

 and Lecturer of Exeter College, Oxford, in 1872, and Professor of 

 Zoology and Comparative Anatomy in University College, London, in 

 1874. He is an honorary LL.D. of the University of St. Andrews 

 (1885), and one of the Honorai-y Fellows of Exeter College, Oxford. 

 He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1875. He is one of 

 the most distinguished zoologists of the present day, and has published 

 more than a hundi'ed scientific memoirs (dating from 1865) mostly on 

 Comparative Anatomy and Paljeontology, among the most important 

 of which are — A Monograph of tlie Fossil Fishes of the Old Red Saud- 

 etone of Britain (1870) : Contributions to tlie Developmental History 

 of the Mollusca (1875): Lhmdus an Arachnid ( IbSl) ; Bhahdopletira 

 and Amphioxus, (1887), and the masterly articles Hydrozoa, Mollusca, 

 Polyzoa, Protozoa, Vertebrata, and Zoology in the ninth edition of the 

 Encyclopaedia " Britannica." Since 1869, when he joined his father, the 

 late Dr. Edwin Lankester, in that work, he has been chief editor of tlie 

 Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science. During the years ] 870-74-, 

 he was one of the sectional secretaires of the British Association for 

 the Ad^vancementof Science, and in 1883 was President of the Biological 

 Section of the Association when it met at Southport. In April, 1882, 

 Professor Lankester accepted the Regina chair of Natural History in 

 the University of Edinburgh, on the death of Sir Wyville Thomson, 

 but shortly afterwards resigned it, and was immediately re-elected to 

 his Professorship at University College, which had been endowed, 

 shortly after his original appointment to the post, by Professor Jodrell. 

 In November of the year of this I'e-election he was elected by the Royal 

 Society to be a member of the Council of that body, and for a second 

 term of service in November, 1888. In 188'!;, Professor Lankester 



