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November 28, 1901. 



Mr. TEALL, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



A List of the Presents received was laid on the table, and thanks 

 ordered for them. 



In pursuance of the Statutes, notice of the ensuing Anniversary 

 Meeting was given from the Chair, arid the list of Officers and Council 

 nominated for election was read as follows : 



President. Sir William Huggins, K.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D. 

 Treasurer. Alfred Bray Kempe, M.A. 



f Sir Michael Foster, K.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D. 

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I Joseph Larmor, M.A., D.Sc., LL.D. 



Foreign Secretary Thomas Edward Thorpe, C.B., Sc.D. 



Other Members of the Council. Professor Henry Edward Armstrong, 

 LL.D. ; William Bateson, M.A. ; William Thomas Blanford, LL.D. ; 

 Professor Frederick Orpen Bower, Sc.D. ; Charles Vernon Boys ; Pro- 

 fessor William Burnside, M.A. ; Professor William Watson Cheyne, C.B., 

 M.B. ; Professor George Carey Foster, B.A. ; Eight Hon. Sir John E. 

 Gorst, M.A. ; Professor William Mitchinson Hicks, M.A. ; Professor 

 Henry Alexander Miers, M.A. ; Professor J. Emerson Reynolds, Sc.D. ; 

 Kobert Henry Scott, Sc.D. ; Professor Charles Scott Sherrington, M.D. ; 

 Joseph Wilson Swan, M.A. ; and Professor Herbert Hall Turner, M.A. 



The following Papers were read : 



I. "Micro-crystalline Structure of Platinum." By T. ANDREWS, 

 F.R.S. 



II. " A Comparative Study of the Spectra, Densities, and Melting 

 Points of some Groups of Elements, and of the Relation of 

 Properties to Atomic Mass." By H. RAMAGE. Communicated 

 byJProfessor LIVEING, F.R.S. 



III. " On the Properties of the Arterial and Venous Walls." By Pro- 



fessor J. A. MAcWiLUAM. Communicated by Sir M. FOSTER, 

 Sec. R.S. 



IV. " The Development of Echinus esculentus." By Professor E. W. 



MACBRIDE. Communicated by ADAM SEDGWICK, F.R.S. 



