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created C.I.E. and in 1899 K.C.M.G., and has made many valuable 

 contributions to botany. 



PROFESSOR JOHN WESLEY JUDD was born at Portsmouth on 

 February i8th, 1840, and educated at the Royal School of Mines. 

 After some service on the Geological Survey, he travelled to study 

 volcanic districts, British and Continental, publishing several impor- 

 tant papers, and was appointed Professor of Geology at the Royal 

 School of Mines in 1876, where he served till his retirement in 1905. 

 During this interval he superintended the transference of the School 

 from Jermyn Street to South Kensington, and organized the most 

 complete system of geological instruction in Britain. An excellent 

 chemist and petrologist, we are indebted to him not only for working 

 out the results of the borings in the Nile Delta, but also for 

 dealing with those in the coral reef of Funafuti and the petrology of 

 the eruptive discharges from Krakatoa, and for not a few other 

 books and scientific memoirs. Elected F.R.S. in 1877, he became 

 President of the Geological Society in 1886, received its Wollaston 

 Medal in 1891, the degree of LL.D. from Aberdeen, a C.B. in 1895, 

 and honorary membership of several societies, dying after some 

 months of failing health at Kew on March 3rd, 1916. 



As April 26th was Easter Monday, the anniversary was 

 kept on May 3rd, when Mr. D. E. Hughes was elected into 

 the vacancy made by transferring Mr. Busk to the honorary 

 supernumerary members. Some alterations were made 

 in the rules, the principal being the removal of the clause 

 requiring not less than thirty-five members to reside within 

 ten miles of the General Post Office, making twelve members 

 a quorum for election, and changing the Anniversary 

 Meeting from Monday to Thursday. 



PROFESSOR DAVID EDWARD HUGHES was of Welsh origin, but born 

 in London on May i6th, 1830, and educated in America, showing 

 early talent both in music and experimental science. He invented 

 a type-writing machine for the electric telegraph, and after returning 

 to London in 1877 made great improvements in the telephone and 

 many discoveries in electricity, especially in regard to aerial tele- 

 graphy. Elected F.R.S. in 1880, he received a Royal Medal in 

 1885, and died in London on January 22nd, 1900, " a simple, 

 genial, well-informed man," who, notwithstanding his generosity, 

 had gathered much wealth, which he left for scientific purposes and 

 to hospitals. 



1886. On November 25th, the vacancy made by trans- 

 ferring Professor Sylvester to the honorary supernumerary 

 list was filled by the election of Dr. W. T. Blanford. 



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