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Anniversary Meeting. 

 On the Foreign List. 



[Nov. 30. 



Clausius, Rudolph Julius Emma- 

 nuel. 



De Bary, Anton. 

 Gray, Asa. 



Fellows elected since the last Anniversary. 



Andrews, Thomas, F.R.S.E. 

 Balfour, Right Hon. Arthur 



James. 



Bottomley, James Thomson, M.A. 

 Boys, Charles Vernon. 

 Church, Arthur Herbert, MA. 

 Clarke, Alexander Ross, Colonel, 



R.E. 

 Greenhill, Prof. Alfred George, 



M.A. 

 Jervois, Sir William F. D., Lieut.- 



General R.E. 

 Lapworth, Professor Charles, 



LL.D. 



Macdonald, Right Hon. John 

 Hay Athole. 



Parker, Professor T. Jeffery. 



Poynting, Professor John Henry, 

 M.A. 



Ramsay, Prof. William, Ph.D. 



Sudeley, Charles Douglas Rich- 

 ard Hanbury-Tracy, Lord. 



Teale, Thomas Pridgln, F.R.C.S. 



Topley, William, F.G.S. 



Trimen, Henry, M.B. 



Ward, Professor Henry Marshall, 

 M.A. 



White, William Henry, M.I.C.E. 



On the Foreign List. 



Becquerel, Edraond. 

 Kopp, Hermann. 



Pfliiger, Eduard F. W. 

 Sachs, Julius. 



The President then addressed the Society as follows : 



IN the month which intervened between our last anniversary and the 

 end of the year, the Society lost four of its Fellows. In addressing 

 the Fellows last year, I referred to the loss which science had sus- 

 tained through the death of the illustrious Kirchhoff, and before 

 three weeks were out, one followed him to the grave whose researches 

 on the connexion between the emission and absorption of radiant heat 

 and light were closely akin to those of Kirchhoff. I refer to Balfour 

 Stewart, who, shortly after landing in Ireland, whither he had gone 

 to spend the Christmas with his family, was suddenly carried off after 

 only a few hours' illness, shortly after he had entered on his sixtieth 

 year. His name is widely known on account of his scientific work 

 in heat, magnetism, and solar physics. He has been a member of the 

 Council, and the Rumford Medal of the Society was awarded to him 

 for the particular research to which I alluded at the outset. The 

 other three of our ordinary Fellows who died before the month was 

 out were all far advanced in years. Two of them were eminent in 

 the medical world, Sir George Burrows and Dr. Arthur Farre, both of 

 whom served on our Council. Early in the year we lost one of our 



