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in favour of juxtaposition. Mr. Newport stated that he 

 had found, on investigating the financial question, the 

 saving to that society would be about 150 a year. Pro- 

 fessor E. Forbes had consulted many Fellows of the Geo- 

 logical Society, who were unanimously in favour of the 

 proposed juxtaposition, and did not apprehend any opposi- 

 tion. Dr. Allen Miller read a copy of a resolution, passed 

 by the Council of the Chemical Society (Dr. Daubeny being 

 in the chair), which stated their entire concurrence with 

 that adopted by the Philosophical Club, welcoming the 

 proposal for juxtaposition, and expressing their readiness 

 to join with the other chartered societies in an application 

 to the Government. Captain Smyth said that the Council 

 of the Astronomical Society had also passed a resolution 

 in favour of the juxtaposition of the scientific societies, as 

 proposed by the Philosophical Club. 



At the fifth Anniversary Meeting on April 26th, the 

 Committee recommended that a copy of the original litho- 

 graphed memorandum, prepared for the instruction of the 

 members of the Philosophical Club in making the above- 

 named enquiries, together with the results of the latter, 

 be forwarded to the Earl of Rosse, with the request that 

 he would take, in consultation with the Council of the 

 Royal Society, the Presidents of the afore-named societies, 

 and the Government, such steps as may appear to him and 

 them most desirable for accomplishing the object in view. 



DR. WILLIAM BENJAMIN CARPENTER was elected into the vacancy 

 caused by the death of Mr. Galloway. He was born at Exeter 

 on Oct. 2Qth, 1813, and went from his father's school to University 

 College, London, as a medical student. Moving to Edinburgh, 

 when qualified, he began a series of papers on physiological questions, 

 ending with his great work much in advance of the time Principles 

 of General and Comparative Physiology, published in 1839. In 1844 

 he returned to London as Professor of Physiology at the Royal 

 Institution, and was elected F.R.S. in the same year. After holding 

 two or three other educational posts, he became Registrar of the 

 University of London in 1856, for the development of which he 

 worked assiduously till he retired, and was created C.B. in 1879. 

 He died on Nov. igth, 1885, " one of the last examples of an almost 

 universal Naturalist," besides which, he was an excellent lecturer. 



