Anniversary Meeting. 



[Dec. 1, 



Auguste De la Rive. 

 Christopher Hansteen. 

 Baron Justus von Liebig. 

 Hugo von Mohl. 



On the Foreign List. 



Gustav R<3se. 



Philippe Edouard Poulletier de 

 Verneuil. 



Change of Name and Title. 



Sir Robert Alexander Shafto Adair to Lord Waveney. 



Lord Rayleigh. 



The Hon. John William Strutt 



to 



Fellows elected since 



The Right Hon. Hugh Culling 



Eardley Childers. 

 "William Aitken, M.D. 

 Sir Alexander Armstrong, M.D., 



K.C.B. 



Robert Stawell Ball, LL.D. 

 John Beddoe, M.D. 

 Frederick Joseph Bramwell, C.E. 

 Captain Edward Killwick Calver, 



R.N. 

 Robert Lewis John Ellery,F.R. A.S. 



the last Anniversary. 



Lieut.-Col. J. Augustus Grant, 



C.B., C.S.I. 



Clements Robert Markham, C.B. 

 George Edward Paget, M.D. 

 George West Royston-Pigott, M.D. 

 Osbert Salvin, M.A. 

 The Hon. John William Strutt, 



M.A. 



Henry Woodward, F.G.S. 

 James Young, F.C.S. 



On the Foreign List. 



Baron Jean Baptiste Julien 



D'Omalius d'Halloy. 

 Georg Adolph Erman. 

 Asa Gray. 



Franz Gustav Jakob Henle. 

 Charles Hermite. 

 Otto Wilhelm Struve. 



The President then addressed the Society as follows : 



GENTLEMEN, 



WE meet, at length, in Apartments to the occupation of which we have 

 long looked forward, and in which we hope to find scientific, literary, and 

 social accommodation superior to that which we have hitherto enjoyed. 

 And I trust that we may consider ourselves established here with a 

 degree of permanency at least comparable to those which the Society ex- 

 perienced in Crane Court and in Somerset House. In congratulating the 

 Society on this important step of localization, I would express my hope 

 that our continued westerly movement will not be misinterpreted. 

 Much of the practical vigour of the Society has always depended on the 

 action of Fellows engaged in the transactions of busy life; and our 

 movement from Somerset House, and in a certain degree from the 

 regions frequented or inhabited by those able men, will I trust be 

 ascribed to its proper cause the difficulty of finding a suitable place in 





