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and has published 135 scientific papers, reports, &c., besides 

 abstracts of 42 others read by the author. The titles of most 

 of these are published in the Transactions of the Royal Society 

 of Canada for 1894. 



Sir William Henry Broadbent, 



F.R.C.P. Physician in Ordinary to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. 

 Consulting Physician to St. Mary's Hospital, and to the London 

 Fever Hospital. Late Lecturer on Medicine, St. Mary's Hos- 

 pital. Late Senior-Censor of the Royal College of Physicians. 

 Late President of the Harveian, Clinical, and Neurological 

 Societies. Late Examiner in Medicine, University of Cambridge, 

 University of London, and at the Royal College of Physicians 

 of London. Is very eminently distinguished as a physician, and 

 is the author of numerous important Memoirs bearing upon 

 the Physiology and Pathology of the Nervous System and the 

 Heart ; and also upon scientific principles of Therapeutics. The 

 following are some of his principal contributions : — "The Sen- 

 sory Motor Ganglia and Association of Nerve Nuclei " {.Brit, 

 and For. Med. Chir. Rev., 1866); " On the Structure of the 

 Cerebral Hemispheres" (Proc. Roy. Soc, 1869); "On the 

 Cerebral Mechanism of Speech and Thought " ( Trans. Med. 

 Chir. Soc, 1872); "An Attempt to apply Chemical Prin- 

 ciples in Explanation of the Action of Remedies and Poisons " 

 (London, 1869); a work "On the Pulse" (London, 1890); 

 Lettsomian Lectures, before the Medical Society, on "Syphilitic 

 Diseases of the Nervous System," 1874 ; Harveian Lectures, 

 before the Harveian Society, on " Prognosis in Valvular Disease 

 of the Heart," 1884 ; Croonian Lectures, before the Royal 

 College of Physicians, on "The Pulse," 1887 ; Lumleian Lec- 

 tures, before the Royal College of Physicians, on " Structural 

 Diseases of the Heart," 1891. Numerous other papers have 

 been published in the Medical Journals and Transactions of the 

 Medical Societies. 



Charles Chree, 



D.Sc, M.A. (Cantab.). Superintendent of the Kew Observa- 

 tory. Author of the following Memoirs, and many others on 

 analogous subjects : — (i) " Effects of Pressure on the Magnetisa- 

 tion of Cobalt" (Phi/. Trans., 1890) ; (2) " Stresses and Strains 

 in Isotropic Elastic Solid Ellipsoids," <S:c. (Proc. Roy. Sec, 

 1895); (3) " Conduction of Heat in Liquids" (ioid., 1887); 

 (4) "A Solution of the Equations for Equilibrium of Elastic 

 Solids," &c. (Catnb. Phil. Trans., vol. xv. ) ; (5) "On some 

 Compound Vibrating Systems" (ibid., vol. xv.) ; (6) " Changes 

 in Dimensions of Solids due to given Systems of Forces " 

 (ibid., vol. XV.); (7) "The Isotropic Elastic Sphere and 

 Spherical Shell" (Camb. Phil. Trans., vol. xv. ) ; (8) " Forced 

 Vibrations in Isotropic Elastic Solid Spheres and Spherical 

 Shells" {ibid.,\o\. xvi.) ; (9) " Rotating Elastic Solid Cylinders 

 of Elliptic Section " (/V»7. Mag., 1892); (10) "Contributions 

 to the Theory of the Robinson Cu|j Anemometer " (Phil. 

 Mag., 1895); (11) "Longitudinal Vibrations of Acolotropic 

 Bars with One Axis of Material Symmetry" [Quart. Journ. 

 Math., 1890) ; (12) " Isotropic Elastic Solids of nearly Spherical 

 Form " (Amer. Journ. Math., vol. xvi.). 



Henry John Elwes, 



F. L.S., F.Z.S. President of the Entomological Society 

 (1893-94). Vice-President of the Horticultural Society 

 (1878-80). Late Captain, Scots Fusilier Guards. Has for 

 many years devoted himself to the study of Ornithology and 

 B^ntomology, and has travelled extensively with the view of 

 investigating the migrations, variations, and geographical dis- 

 tribution of birds and certain classes of insects over large areas 

 of the northern hemisphere. In pursuance of his researches 

 he has visited India on four occasions (1870, 1876, 1880, 1886), 

 extending his observations from Travancore to the Punjab, 

 Assam and the loftiest Himalaya bordering on Tibet ; the 

 Eastern and Western United States, Canada, and Mexico 

 (1888, 1893); Greece, Turkey, Asia Minor, and the Crimea 

 (1869, 1874); Algeria (1882); and all parts of Europe. His 

 collections and observations have yielded very important results, 

 notably his paper "On the Geographical Distribution of 

 Asiatic Birds'' (Proc. Zool. Soc, 1873), wherein the Himalayan 

 and Chinese Avi-faunas are shown to be one. Other papers 

 are : "On the Ornithology of the Cardamum Hills, Travancore" 

 (Ibis, 1870); "On the Genus Parnassius" (Proc Zool. Soc, 

 1886) ; "On Hemicurus" (Ibis, 1872) ; " On the Papilionidae 

 of the Eastern Alps" (Eniom. Monthly Mag., i88o) ; and of 



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"The Sikkim Himalaya" (Proc Zool. Soc, 1882); and of 

 "Amur-land, N. China and Japan "(/<?c. cit., i88i); and of 

 the "Naga and Karen Hills ''' (/tf<:. cit., 1891-92). Mr. Elwes 

 is author of a valuable memoir on the genus Lilittm, and has, 

 during his travels, communicated many interesting plants to the 

 Royal Gardens, Kew. 



John Scott Haldane, 

 M.D., M.A., M.R.C.P. (Edin.). Hon. M.A., Oxford. Lec- 

 turer in Physiology, University of Oxford. Author of the 

 following and of other Memoirs :— " The Elimination of 

 Aromatic Bodies in Fever" (y^w;-?/. Physiol., vol. ix., 1888); 

 " The Carbonic Acid, Organic Matter, and Micro-organisms in 

 Air " (with Prof. Carnelley and Dr. Anderson), (Phil. Trans., 

 1887); "The Air of Sewers" (with Prof. Carnelley), (/'r<?f. 

 Roy. Soc, 1887) ; "The Air of Buildings and Sewers" (Trans. 

 Sanit. Inst., 1887); "The Accurate Determination of the 

 Carbonic Acid and Moisture in Air " (with Mr. Pembrey), 

 (Phil. Mag., 1890) ; "A New Form of Apparatus for Measur- 

 ing the Respiratory Exchange" (Journ. Physiol., vol. xix., 

 1892) ; " The Physiological Effects of Air vitiated by Respira- 

 tion" (with Mr. Lorrain Smith), (Journ. of Pathol, and 

 Bacteriol., 1892); " The Toxic Action of Expired Air" (with 

 Mr. Smith), (?'(5/rt'., 1893); "An Improved Form of Animal 

 Calorimeter " (with Drs. Hale White and Washbourn), (Journ. 

 Physiol., vol. xvi., 1894); "On Red Blood Corpuscles of 

 Different Specific Oxygen Capacities " (with Mr. Smith), (ibid., 

 vol. xvi., 1894); "The Nature and Physiological Action of 

 Black Damp" (Proc Roy. Soc, vol. Ivii.); "Investigations on 

 Composition, Occurrence, and Properties of Black Damp" 

 (with Mr. W. N. Atkinson), (Trans. Fed. Inst. Mining Eng., 

 1895) ; "The Relation of Carbonic Oxide to Oxygen Tension" 

 (Journ. Physiol., vol. xviii., 1889). 



Supplementary Certificate. — Report to the Home Secretary 

 on the Causes of Death in Colliery Explosions, 1896 (Par- 

 liamentary Paper) ; ' ' The Nature and Sources of the Suffocation 

 Gas met with in Wells " ( Trans. Fed. /nst. Mining En^neers, 

 vol. xi., p. 265); "Oxygen Fusion of Arterial Blood " (with 

 Prof. Lorrain Smith), (Journ. Physiol., in the Press). 



William A. Haswell, 



M. A., D.Sc. (Edin.). F.L.S. Vice-President Linnean Society 

 of New South Wales. Trustee of the Australian Museum. 

 Corr. Memb. Royal Society of Tasmania. Memb. K. Leopold. - 

 Carol. Deutsche Akad. , Halle. Challis Professor of Zoology, 

 University of Sydney, N.S.W. Distinguished as a zoologist 

 and comparative anatomist. Author of seventy-four papers, 

 mainly morphological, including the following: — "Catalogue 

 of the Australian Stalk and Sessile-eyed Crustacea," 1882 ; 

 " On Temnocephala, an aberrant Monogenetic Trematode " 

 (Quart, lourn. Micros. Sci., 1888) ; "A Monograph of Temno- 

 cephalete" (Macleay Memorial Volume, 1892); "A Mono- 

 graph of the Australian Aphroditex" (Prcc. Linn. Soc. N.S. IV., 

 1882) ; "The Marine Annelides of the Order Serpulea " (ibid., 

 1884) ; "On the Structure of the so-called Glandular Ventricle 

 of Syllis" (Quart, Journ. Micros. Sci., 1886); "On an ap- 

 parently New Type of Platyhelminthis'" (Macleay Memorial 

 V'olume, 1892); " A Revision of the Australian Lamodipoda''^ 

 (Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1884); "A Revision of the 

 Australian Isopoda" (ibid.); "Studies on the Elasmobranch 

 Skeleton" (ibid.); "On the Structure of the Paired Fins of 

 Ceratodus, &c." (ibid., 1882); "Observations on the Early 

 Stages in the Development of the Emu" (ibid., 1887); "On 

 Polycercus, a Proliferating Cistode Parasite of the Earthworms " 

 (ibid., 1893); " "^ Comparative Study of Striated Muscle" 

 (Quart. Journ. Micros. Sci., vol. xxx.), in conjunction with 

 Mr. J. P. Hill. 



George Bond Howes, 



F.L.S., F.Z.S. , Assistant Professor of Zoology in the Royal 

 College of Science, London. Member of Council of the 

 Linnean Society, and of the Anatomical Society. Examiner in 

 Zoology, Victoria University, and for the University of New 

 Zealand. Author of an " Atlas of Elementary Biology," and 

 joint co-author of 4^he revised and extended edition of " Huxley 

 and Martin's Practical Biology." Author of numerous papers 

 on Morphology, dealing especially with the Ichthyopsida and 

 Mammalia, of which the following are the more important : — 

 " On some points in the Anatomy of the Porpoise " (Journ. Anat. 

 and Phys., vol. xiv. p. 467); "Notes on the Cranio-Facial 



