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Anniversary Meeting. 



[Dec. 1. 



Fellows elected since 



Allman, Prof. George Johnston, 



LL.D. 



Balfour, Prof. Isaac Bayley, D.Sc. 

 Baxendell, Joseph, F.R.A.S. 

 Bell, James, F.I.C. 

 Fry, Right Hon. Lord Justice Sir 



Edward. 

 Hartley, Prof. Walter Noel, 



F.R.S.E. 

 Herschel, Prof. Alexander Stewart, 



M.A. 



the last Anniversary. 



Hndleston, Wilfrid H.,M.A.,F.G.S. 

 Lamb, Prof. Horace, M.A. 

 McKendrick, Prof. John G., M.D. 

 Ransome, Arthur, M.D. 

 Roy, Prof. Charles Smart, M.D. 

 Riicker, Prof. Arthur William, 



M.A. 



Thomson, Joseph John, B.A. 

 Warren, Sir Charles, Colonel 



R.E., C.M.G. 

 Watson, Prof. Morrison, M.D. 



De Bary, Anton. 

 Gegenbaur, Carl. 

 Kronecker, Leopold. 



On the Foreign List. 



Virchow, Rudolph. 



Wiedemann, Gustav. 



The Treasurer then addressed the Society as follows : 



The absence of our President from his post to-day must of necessity 

 cast a certain amount of gloom over the proceedings at this our 

 anniversary meeting, and, personally, I feel additional regret that it 

 devolves upon me, as your Senior Vice- President and Treasurer, to be 

 the unworthy occupant of the Chair on the present occasion. My 

 regret at the absence of the President is, however, in one respect 

 tempered by a strong hope, in which, I am sure, that you will all 

 fervently join, that the timely retirement from ai'duous work which 

 has been enforced upon him. by his medical advisers may produce 

 those beneficial results which we all so cordially desire, and that we 

 may ere long again see among us our accomplished and valued 

 President in renewed health and strength. 



I must, however, turn from the expression of our hopes for the 

 future, to that of our regrets for the past, and for a short time dwell 

 upon the mournful list of vacancies which the ever-active hand of 

 death has caused in our ranks during the past twelve months. In 

 one respect only can a topic of consolation be found in this list. 

 It is that in extent it is less than that of last year, the total 

 number of our deceased Fellows being only eighteen on the home 

 list and three on the foreign list, while those numbers were twenty- 

 one and two respectively at our last anniversary. 



All three foreign members whose loss we have on the present occa- 

 sion to deplore were men of the highest distinction in chemical 



