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Linnean, and Geological) now accommodated in Somerset 

 House should be prepared with a statement of the space 

 which they occupied, and Lord Rosse remarked that 

 Burlington House would not afford sufficient room for the 

 scientific societies as well as for the University of London, 

 without building additional wings. 



1855. On Jan. 25th, a proposed modification of the 

 bye-law about elections was referred to the Committee, 

 and the progress made by the Royal Society in preparing 

 scientific instruments for the Exhibition in Paris was 

 mentioned. Lord Wrottesley informed the Club that 

 Government had granted 500 towards the expenses, and 

 the services of four sappers had been requested from the 

 Board of Ordnance for security in packing. 



At the Anniversary Meeting on April 30th, it was 

 resolved that new members should be elected at the first 

 meeting in November as well as at the Anniversary Meeting. 

 But as only fourteen members were then present, the 

 election was postponed till May loth. At that meeting 

 the Treasurer announced six vacancies : Sir H. T. de la 

 Beche, Professor Forbes, Dr. Wallich by death, Mr. Brown, 

 Mr. Christie, Mr. Goodsir by resignation. Sir Proby Cautley 

 was replaced on the list. Mr. Busk, Mr. Huxley, Prof. 

 Stokes, and Prof. Tyndall were elected, the sixth vacancy not 

 being filled. 1 



MR. GEORGE BUSK, highly distinguished in more than one branch 

 of science, was born at St. Petersburg on Aug. I2th, 1807, and 

 showed in his schooldays a love of Natural History. He studied 

 medicine at St. Thomas' and St. Bartholomew's Hospitals, and 

 after qualifying became assistant surgeon on the Grampus, hospital 

 ship at Greenwich, and then full surgeon on the Dreadnought. 

 Retiring in 1855 he settled in London to devote his whole time 

 to scientific work. In this he covered a wide field, for his writings 

 deal with the pathology of cholera, the treatment of scurvy, the 

 lowest forms of life, the polyzoa (the second volume of his Report 

 on those collected by the Challenger being finished during his last 

 illness), palaeolithic implements, and the noted Moulin Quignon 

 jawbone (in 1863), after which he visited Gibraltar, working there 

 and elsewhere at the fauna of caves, besides taking an active part 



1 A candidate was proposed, but not elected. 



