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The President then addressed the Society as follows : 



Since our last Anniversary Meeting, the Royal Society has lost 

 eighteen Fellows a.nd three Foreign Members. 



H.R.H. Louis Philippe d'Orleans, Count of Paris, September 8, 



1894, aged 56. 



John Tyndall, December 4, 1893, aged 73. 

 The Earl of Lovelace, December 29, 1893, aged 89. 

 Sir Samuel White Baker, December 30, 1893, aged 72. 

 Arthur Milnes Marshall, December 31, 1893, aged 41. 

 Pierre J. Van Beneden, January 8, 1894, aged 93. 

 William Pengelly, March 16, 1894, aged 82. 

 Lord Hannen, March 29, 1894, aged 73. 



Dr. Charles Edouard Brown-Sequard, April 1, 1894, aged 77, 

 Lord Bowen, April 10, 1894, aged 58. 

 Brian Houghton Hodgson, May 23, 1894, aged 94. 

 George John Romanes, May 23, 1894, aged 46~ 

 Lord Coleridge, June 5, 1894, aged 74. 

 Charles R. Alder Wright, July 25, 1894, aged 50, 

 Rev. William Bentinck Latham Hawkins* August 31, 1894, 



aged 83. 

 Admiral Sir Edward Augustus Inglefield, September 5, 1894, 



aged 74. 

 Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, September 8, 1894, 



aged 73. 



Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac, September 15, 1894, aged 77. 

 William Topley, October 2, 1894, aged 53. 

 Lord Basing, October 22, 1894, aged 68. 

 Colonel R. Y. Armstrong, November 1, 1894, aged 55. 



Biographical notices will be found in the Proceedings. 



Science has lost severely during the past year. In the list of 

 Fellows deceased, which I have read to you, you have heard the 

 names of Tyndall, Milnes Marshall, Van Beneden, Pengelly, Brown- 

 Sequard, Romanes, Alder Wright, Helmholtz, Marignac, Topley, all 

 well known to you as having been in their lives zealous and success- 

 ful scientific investigators, who have largely contributed to the object 

 for which the Royal Society works, " The Increase of Natural Know- 

 ledge." Tyndall, full of fire and enthusiasm in solid experimental 

 work advancing the boundaries of science, contributed largely, by 

 his brilliant lectures and books, to make science popular, as it now is 

 in England and America. By the sad death of Milnes Marshall on 

 Sea wf ell, in Cumberland, on the last day of 1893, we lost a young, 

 able, and enthusiastic worker in zoology. A few months later, we 

 lost the veteran Pengelly, who did so much for geological science, 

 and gave such delightful and valuable lessons to the larger world of 



