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Tenure of Office. 



William Spottiswoode Nov. 30, 1878-June 27, 1883 



ft. Jan. 11, 1825 ; d. June 27, 1883. Mathematician, Physicist, and Oriental Scholar. 

 Queen's Printer. Lecturer in Mathematics at Balliol College. ' Meditationes 

 Analyticae' (1847). Numerous papers on the Polarization of Light and other 

 physical subjects in the ' Philosophical Transactions', ' Phil. Mag.', ttc. Pres. 

 Math. Soc. (1871). Pres. Brit. Assoc. (1878). 



Thomas Henry Huxley, P.C July 5, 1883-Nov. 30, 1885 



b. May 4, 1825 ; d. June 29, 189o. D.C.L. (Oxon.). Lecturer on General Nat. Hist, 

 at the Royal School of Mines. Naturalist to the Geological Survey (1855) ; sub- 

 sequently Prof, of Biology in the Royal College of Science. Fullerian Professor 

 of Physiology in the Royal Institution (1856-8). Hunterian Professor at the Royal 

 College of Surgeons (1863-70). Pres. Geolog. Society, and of the Brit. Assoc. 

 (1870). Inspector of Fisheries (1881). Trustee of the Brit. Museum. Member 

 of many Royal and other Commissions. 



Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Bart Nov. 30, 1885-Nov. 30, 1890 



6. Aug. 13, 1819 ; d. Feb. 1, 1903. Senior Wrangler (1841). Lucasian Professor of 

 Mathematics at Cambridge (1849-1902). Lecturer on Physics at the Royal 

 School of Mines (1854-60). Pres. Brit. Assoc. (1869). Author of Burnett 

 Lectures on Light (Aberdeen) and Gifford Lectures on Natural Theology (Edin- 

 burgh), and of fundamental memoirs in the ' Philosophical Transactions ', the 

 ' Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society', and other journals. 



Lord Kelvin (Sir William Thomson), P.C., 



O.M., G.C.V.O Nov. 30, 1890-Nov. 30, 1895 



b. June 26, 1824 ; d. Dec. 17, 1907. Second Wrangler and first Smith's Prizeman at 

 Camb. (1845). LL.D., D.C.L., D.Sc., M.D. Prof, of Nat. Philosophy in 

 Glasgow Univ. (1846-1899). Pres. Brit. Assoc. (1871). Original discoverer in 

 the foundations of thermodynamics, and of electrical theory and practice including 

 modern electrical engineering. Author of ' Treatise on Natural Philosophy ', in 

 conjunction with Professor Tait. Original member of the Order of Merit. 

 Buried in Westminster Abbey by the side of Sir Isaac Newton. 



Lord Lister, P.C., O.M Nov. 30, 1895-Nov. 30, 1900 



ft. April 5, 1827 ; d. Feb. 10, 1912. D.C.L., LL.D., D.Sc. Professor of Surgery in 

 the University of Glasgow (1860-69). Professor of Clinical Surgery in the Univ. 

 of Edinburgh (1869-77), and in King's College, Lond. (1877-93). Pres. Brit. 

 Assoc. (1896). Sergeant Surgeon to H.M. Queen Victoria. Emeritus Prof, of 

 Clinical Surgery in King's Coll., Lond., and Consulting Surgeon to King's Coll. 

 Hospital. Author of Croonian Lecture on ' Coagulation of Blood ; early Stages 

 of Inflammation ', ' Phil. Trans.' ; and other papers on Physiological and Patho- 

 logical subjects in the ' Trans, of the Roy. Soc. of Edinburgh ' and in the ' Trans, 

 of the Path. Soc., London', reprinted in two quarto volumes of 'Scientific 

 Papers '. Founder of the principles and practice of antiseptic surgery. Original 

 member of the Order of Merit. 



Sir William Huggins, K.C.B., O.M Nov. 30, 1900-Nov. 30, 1905 



ft. Feb. 7, 1824; d. May 13, 1910. D.C.L., LL.D., D.Sc. Established a private 

 Observatory at Tulse Hill (1856) Pres. Roy. Astron. Soc. (1876-8). Pres. 



