1893.] 



President's Address. 



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Burnside, Professor William, M.A. 

 Dunstan, Prof essor Wyiidham R., 



M.A. 



Ellis, William, F.R.A.S. 

 Evvart, Professor J. Cossar, M.D. 

 Gairdner, Professor William 



Tennant, M.D. 



Hobson, Ernest William, D.Sc. 

 Howorth, Sir Henry Hoyle, 



K.C.I.E. 

 Moiiey, Right Hon. John, M.A. 



Newton, Edwin Tulley, F.G.S. 

 Sherrington, Charles Scott, M.D. 

 Stirling, Edward C., M.D. 

 Thornycroft, John Isaac, M. Inst. 



C.E. 

 Trail, Professor James William 



Helenus, M.D. 



Wallace, Alfred Russel, LL.D. 

 Worthington, Professor Arthur 



Mason, M.A. 

 Young, Professor Sydney, D.Sc. 



The President then addressed the Society as follows : 



Since our last Anniversary Meeting, the Royal Society has lost 11 

 Fellows on the Home List, and 2 Foreign Members. 



Henry Tibbats Stainton, December 2, 1892, aged 70. 



Sir Richard Owen, December 18, 1892, aged 89. 



Dr. James Jago, January 18, 1893, aged 77. 



Henry Francis Blanford, January 23, 1893, aged 58. 



Thomas William Fletcher, February 1, 1893, aged 84. 



Edward Walker, March 2, 1893, aged 73. 



Alphonse de Candolle, March 28, 1893, aged 87. 



Henry Edward Stanley, Earl of Derby, April 21, 1893, aged 67. 



Ernest Edward Kummer, May 14, 1893, aged 84. 



Rev. Charles Pritchard, May 28, 1893, aged 85. 



Dr. John Rae, July 22, 1893, aged 80. 



Thomas Hawksley, September 23, 1893, aged 86. 



Sir Andrew Clark, Bart., November 6, 1893, aged 67. 



Biographical notices will be found in the Proceedings. 



During the past session our standing committees have been as active 

 as ever. The Library Committee have again had before them the 

 question of finding accommodation to meet the rapid growth of our 

 Library. One measure which, with the consent cf the Council, they 

 have adopted to this end has been to part with a number of the 

 literary and philosophical series of transactions published by those 

 societies which are not, like our own, purely scientific. In some cases 

 these series are being returned to the institutions who gave them ; in 

 others, where this is not desired, they are presented to libraries in 

 which they will be of greater use than in our own. 



The House and Soiree Committee have held more than their usual 

 number of meetings ; and, acting upon their advice, the Council ap- 



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