1862.] 65 



May 1, 1862. 

 JAMES PAGET, Esq., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



In accordance with the Statutes, the names of the Candidates 

 recommended for election into the Society were read, as follows : 



George Bentham, Esq. 

 Henry William Bristow, Esq. 

 Alexander Ross Clarke, Capt. 



R.E. 



John W. Dawson, Esq. 

 Frederick J. Owen Evans, Esq. 

 John Braxton Hicks, M.D. 

 The Very Rev. Walter Farquhar 



Hook, D.D. 



George Rolleston, M.D. 

 Charles William Siemens, Esq. 

 Maxwell Simpson, Esq. 

 Balfour Stewart, Esq. 

 Thomas Pridgin Teale, Esq. 

 Sir James Emerson Tennent. 

 Isaac Todhunter, Esq. 

 C. Greville Williams, Esq. 



Professor Albert Kolliker, of Wiirzburg, who was elected a Foreign 

 Member in 1860, was admitted into the Society. 



The CROONIAN LECTURE was delivered by Prof. A. KOLLIKER, 

 For. Memb. R.S., "On the Termination of Nerves in Muscles, 

 as observed in the Frog ; and on the disposition of the Nerves in 

 the Frog's Heart/' as follows : 



When I was honoured by an invitation to deliver the Croonian 

 Lecture, I at first hesitated to undertake the task, however gratifying 

 to me, because I was not prepared with a subject of discourse which 

 I thought likely to prove of sufficient general interest to the Fellows 

 of this distinguished body, engaged as they are in the pursuit of very 

 various branches of " Natural Knowledge." I felt that on such an 

 occasion it was desirable to lay before the Society the result of some 

 original research, but I feared that the matter I had actually at my 

 command, referring more immediately to a question in Microscopic 

 Anatomy, was scarcely of adequate importance. Knowing, however, 

 that the purpose for which this lecture was instituted is the elucida- 

 tion of the " Nature and Laws of Muscular Motion," and considering 

 that my researches, although in themselves purely anatomical, have a 



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