76 Annals of the Philosophical Club 



Owen, General Sir E. Sabine, and Mr. E. Solly. In the 

 first third of the Club's period of existence, 18 new members 

 were elected, of whom 6 are actual members, i has become 

 a supernumerary, 3 have resigned, and 8 are dead. In 

 the second division of the period 27 new members were 

 elected, of whom 16 are actual members, i is a supernumerary, 

 i has resigned, and 9 have died. In the third division 

 the new members were 22, of whom 21 are actual members 

 and i (Professor Clifford) has died. Of the present members 

 14 are of more than twenty years' standing, and thus entitled 

 to become supernumerary members under Rule XIII. 



After a conversation on the desirability of preparing, 

 and perhaps printing for circulation among the members, 

 a short analysis of the communications, etc., made to the 

 Club, Mr. F. Galton was requested to examine the Minutes 

 and see if that were feasible. 1 * 



1881. At the Anniversary Meeting on April 25th, the 

 vacancies made by the death of Sir P. Egerton, and the 

 transference to supernumerary membership of Dr. Farre, 

 Dr. Lyon Playfair, and Professor Prestwich, were filled by 

 the election of Professor Dewar, Professor Newton, Captain 

 Noble, and Mr. Tylor. 



As SIR JAMES DEWAR is actively engaged in research, it is almost 

 needless to recount his many well-earned honours, such as the 

 Rumford and the Davy Medal of the Royal Society, honorary 

 degrees, knighthood (in 1904), and other distinctions. He was born 

 at Kincardine-on-Forth, Sept. 2oth, 1842, is Professor of Experi- 

 mental Philosophy in Cambridge University and Professor of 

 Chemistry at the Royal Institution. The most remarkable of his 

 many discoveries are the results of approaches to the nadir of tem- 

 perature, in the course of which he has obtained hydrogen in a liquid 

 and in a solid form. 



PROFESSOR ALFRED NEWTON, so well known as an ornithologist, 

 was born in Geneva on June nth, 1829, a member of a good Suffolk 

 family, and graduated at Cambridge from Magdalen College in 

 1853, at which he obtained a travelling fellowship. Though lame 

 from childhood, he studied and collected birds and their eggs in 



1 He announced at the next anniversary that he thought this could 

 not be done satisfactorily, but that he had made an index (copied into 

 the first volume of the Minutes) of the subjects of communications to the 

 Club at the meetings (296) recorded in that volume. 



