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[May 20, 1897 



Skeleton of the Sturgeon " (incorporated in Prof. W. K. 

 Parker's monograph in Phil. Trans., 1882, p. 171); "The 

 Morphology of the Mammalian Coracoid " ( Jour7i. Atmt. and 

 Pkys., vol. xxi. p. 190) ; " On the Skeleton and Affinities of the 

 Paired Fins of Ceratodus and those of the Elasmobranchii " 

 (Proc. Zool. Soc, 1887, p. 3) ; " On a hitherto Unrecognised 

 Feature in the Larynx of the Anourous Amphibia" (ibid., p. 

 491) ; " Rabbit with an Intra-Narial Epiglottis, with a sugges- 

 tion concerning the Phylogeny of the Mammalian Respiratory 

 Apparatus" {Journ. Anat. and Phys., vol. xxiii. p. 263); 

 "Additional Observations upon Intra-Narial Epiglottis" (ihid., 

 p. 587) ; " Variation in the Kidney of Raia clavata ; its Nature, 

 Range, and probable Significance " (/i5?</., vol. xxiv. p. 407); 

 " On the Visceral Anatomy of the Australia Torpedo " (ibid., 

 p. 669) ; " Observations on the Pectoral Fin-Skeleton of Living 

 Batoid Fishes, and of the Extinct Genus Squaloraja," &c. (ibid., 

 P- 675) ; " On some Hermaphrodite Genitalia in Gadns 

 Morrhua," &c. ( Journ. Linn. Soc. Zoology, vol. xxiii. p. 539) ; 

 " On the Probable Existence of a Jacobson's Organ among the 

 Crocodilia ; with Observations upon the Skeleton of that organ 

 in the Mammalia," &c. (Proc. Zool. Soc, 1891, p. 148) : 

 " Notes on the Shoulder-CJirdle of certain Dicynodont Reptiles " 

 (ibid., vol. xxvi. p. 403); "On the Affinities, Intra-relation- 

 ships, and Systematic Position of the Marsipobranchiata " 

 Trans. Liverpool Biol. Soc, vol. vi. p. 122), &c. 



Supplementary Certificate. — Professor of Zoology, Royal 

 College of Science, Treasurer Anatomical Society of Great 

 Britain, and President of the Malacological Society of London ; 

 Zoological Secretary of the Linnean Society ; Memb. Council 

 Zoological Society. Has continued work on " The Morphology 

 of Coracoid of Terrestrial Vertebrata" (Proc. Zool. Soc, 1893, 

 p. 385), and published papers dealing, among other subjects, 

 with : — " Morphology of Pelvic Girdle of Mammalia " (Journ. 

 Anat. Phys., vol. xxvii. p. 543) ; " Variation and Development 

 of the Vertebral and Limb-Skeleton of Amphibia " (Proc. Zool. 

 Soc, 1893, p. 268) ; Synostosis and Curvature of the Spine in 

 Fishes" (ibid., 1894, p. 95); "Types of Modification of Mam- 

 malian Hyoid " (/(?«/;•«. Anat. Phys , vol. xxx. p. 513). Has 

 edited and annotated English translation of Wiedersheim's 

 " Bau des Menschen." 



F. Stanley Kipping, 

 D.Sc. (Lond.), Ph.D. (Munich). Lecturer and Chief Assistant 

 in the Chemical Department of the City and Guilds of London 

 Institute, Central Technical College. Distinguished as an 

 original and very skilful and persistent worker in Chemistry. 

 Author of sixteen papers published in the Transactions of the 

 Chemical Society, and of others in the Journal of the German 

 Chemical Society, the following being the titles of several of 

 these : — "The Synthetical Formation of Closed Carbon Chains 

 in the Aromatic Series" ; " Action of Phosphoric Anhydride on 

 Falty Acids" (3 parts) ; " Hydrindone and its Derivatives"; 

 " Formation of the Hydrocarbon Truxene " ; (in conjunction 

 with Dr. Perkin) " Diacetylpentane and Dibenzoylpentane " ; 

 "Derivatives of Phenylhexamethylene " ; "Synthesis of Di- 

 methyldihydroxy hepamethylene," &c. ; (in conjunction with 

 Dr. Armstrong) " The Formation of Ketones from Camphor" ; 

 (in conjunction with Mr. Pope) " Sulphonic Derivatives of 

 Camphor." 



George Ballard Mathews, 

 M. A., Professor of Mathematics in the University College of 

 North Wales. Late Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge ; 

 Fellow of University College, London. Eminent Mathematician. 

 Author of the following works of merit in connection with 

 Mathematics :—" Theory of Numbers" (1892); "Complex 

 Multiplication Moduli of Elliptic Functions for the Determinants 

 - 53 and - 61 " (Proc. Lond. Math. Soc, vol. xxi.) ; " On Class 

 Invariants" (ibid., vol. xxi.); "Note on Dirichlet's Formula 

 for the Number of Classes of Binary Quadratic Forms for a 

 Complex Determinant" (ibid, vol. xxiii.); "On Binary 

 Quadratic Forms with Complex Coefficients" (Quart. Journ. 

 Math., vol. XXV.) ; " On the Classification of Symmetric Func- 

 tions " (ibid. ) ; "On the Expansion of the Coordinates of a Point 

 upon a Tortuous Curve in terms of the Arc " (ibid. , vol. xxvi. ) ; 

 "Irregular Determinants and Sub-triplicate Forms" (Mess. 

 Math., vol. XX.) ; and others, a list of which is sent. 



George Robert Milne Murray, 



F.L.S., F.R.S.E. Assistant (First Class), Department of 

 Botany, British Museum. Naturalist to the Solar Eclipse Ex- 



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pedition to Grenada, 1886. Examiner in Botany, Glasgow 

 University, 1887-92 ; Victoria University, 1889-92. Lecturer 

 on Botany at the Royal Veterinary College, London. Author of 

 numerous papers on the structure, classification, and distribution 

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

 " Investigations into the Infection of Fishes with Saprole);nia 

 ferax" (Reports of the Inspector of Fisheries, 1883-85) ; " On 

 the Outer Peridium oi Broomeia" (Journ Linn. Soc, 1882); 

 " On two New Species of Lentinus, one of them growing on a 

 large Sclerotium " (/<?«r«. Linn. Soc, 1886); "On a New 

 Species of Rhipilia" (ihzd.); "On Boodlea, a New Genus of 

 Siphonocladacece" (Journ. Linn. Soc, 1890); The Distribution 

 of Marine Algre in Space and Time " (Trans. Biol. Soc, Liver- 

 pool, 1891); "On a Fossil Alga belonging to the Genus 

 Caulerpa, from the Oolite " (Phycological Metitoirs, 1892) ; " On 

 a New Species of Caulerpa, with Observations on the Position 

 of the Genus" ( Trans. Linn. Soc, 1891) ; " On the Structure 

 oi Dictyosphcpria" (Phycological Memoirs, 1892); "A Com- 

 parison of the Marine Floras of the warm Atlantic, the Cape of 

 Good Hope, and the Indian Ocean " (?^?'^.) ; "On Halicyslis 

 and Valonia " (ibid.). Author of several articles in the " Ency- 

 clopaedia Britannica," including "Fungi" and "Vegetable 

 Parasitism." Joint author, with Mr. A. W. Bennett, M.A., of 

 " A Handbook of Cryptogamic Botany," 1889 ; with Mr. Boodle, 

 of Memoirs on "The Structure of Spongocladia''' (Annals of 

 Botany, 1888); "A Structural and Systematic Account of 

 Strtwea" (ibid.) \ "A Systematic and Structural Account of 

 Avrainz'illcea" Journ. Bot., 1889); and, with Miss Barton, 

 "The Structure and Systematic Position of Chatitransia'" 

 (Linn. Soc, 1891). 



Supplementary Certificate. — Keeper of Botany, British Museum 

 (Natural History). Author of " A Comparison of the Arctic 

 and Antarctic Marine Floras" (with Miss Barton) (Phycological 

 Memoirs, part iii. ) ; " A New Part of Pachytheca " (ibid. ) ; "On 

 the Reproduction of some Marine Diatoms" (Proc. Roy. Soc. 

 Edin., 1897) ; " Introduction to the Study of Seaweeds." 

 1895. 



Francis Henry Neville, 

 M.A., College Lecturer. Fellow and Lecturer in Natural 

 Science, Sidney College. Fifteenth Wrangler, 1 87 1. Author 

 of " Recent Progress in the Study of Alloys" (Science Progress, 

 vol. iv. Nos. 20, 21) ; joint author with Mr. C. T. Heycock 

 of the following: — "On a Simplified Form of Apparatus for 

 Determining the Density of Ozone" (Proc Camb. Phil. Soc, 

 vol. v.) ; " Lowering of the Freezing Point of Tin by the .Addi- 

 tion of other Metals" (Proc. CJiem. Soc, No. 65, 1889); 

 " Lowering of the Freezing Point of Sodium by the Addition of 

 other Metals" (Trans. Chein. Soc, vol. Iv., 1889); "Mole- 

 cular Weights of Metals when in Solution " (ibid., vol. Ivii. ) ; 

 " Freezing Point of Triple Alloys of Gold, Cadmium, and Tin" 

 (ibid., vol. lix. ); "Lowering of the Freezing Points of Cad- 

 mium, Bismuth, and Lead, when alloyed with other Metals" 

 (ibid., vol. Ixi. ) ; "Isolation of a Compound of Gold and Cad- 

 mium" (ibid.) ; "Freezing Point of Alloys, in which Thallium 

 is the Solvent " (ibid. , 1894) ; " Freezing Point of Triple Alloys" 

 (ibid.); "On the Determination of High Temperatures by 

 means of the Platinum Resistance Pyrometers" (ibid., 1895). 



H. Alleyne Nicholson, 



M.D. (Edin.), D.Sc, Ph.D., F.G.S. Regius Professor of 

 Natural History in the University of Aberdeen. Swiney 

 Lecturer on Geology in the British Museum, 1877-81, 1890-94. 

 Formerly Professor of Natural History in the University of 

 Toronto, 1871-74; afterwards in the University of St. Andrews, 

 1875-82. Has devoted himself specially to the study of Palaeon- 

 tology. The following are the titles of some of the more im- 

 portant of his numerous published contributions : — " Manual of 

 Palaeontology "(third edition) ; " Invertebrata," 1889; "Mono- 

 graph of the British Stromatoporoids)," 4to, 234 pp , 28 plates, 

 1885-92 ; "The British Graptolitidae," 1872 ; " The Palaeozoic 

 Tabulate Corals," 1879; "On Monticulipora and its Sub- 

 genera," 1881 ; "Reports on Pakeontology of the Province of 

 Ontario," 1874-75; "Silurian Fossils of Girvan," 1881 (jointly 

 with R. Etheridge, jun.) ; " l>ibliography of N. American In- 

 vertebrate Palaeontology" (with Prof. C. A. White), 1878; 

 " Report on Silurian and Devonian Fossils of State of Ohio," 

 1875. H^ h^** ^Iso published numerous separate memoirs on 

 the Graptolitidae, the Stromatoporoids, the Palaeozoic Corals, 

 the Monticuliporoids, the Palaeozoic Polyzoa, and certain obscure 



