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The Anniversary Meeting of the Royal 

 Society. The anniversary meeting of the 

 Royal Society was held in its apartments at 

 Burlington House, London, on St. Andrew's 

 Day, Saturday, November 30, 1895. After 

 the delivery of the presidential address by 

 Lord Kelvin, the medals were presented as 

 follows; The Copley medal to Prof. Karl 

 Weierstrass, for Mem. R. S. (received on his 

 behalf by the Foreign Secretary), for his in- 

 vestigations in pure mathematics ; a Royal 

 medal to Prof. James Alford Ewing, for his 

 investigations on magnetic induction in iron 

 and other metals ; a Royal medal to Dr. John 

 Murray, for his services to biological science 

 and oceanography, in connection with the 

 Challenger reports, and for his original 

 contributions to the same ; and the Davy 

 medal to Prof. William Ramsay, for his 

 share in the discovery of argon, and for his 



discoveries regarding gaseous constituents of 

 terrestrial minerals. The officers elected for 

 the ensuing year are as follows : President, 

 Sir Joseph Lister, Bart. ; Treasurer, Sir John 

 Evans ; Secretaries, Prof. Michael Foster and 

 Lord Rayleigh ; Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ed- 

 ward Frankland. Lord Kelvin closed his 

 address with the following remarks : " I 

 thank you all, my colleagues of 1 the Royal 

 Society, for electing me five times to be your 

 president, for forgiving me all my short- 

 comings, and for the inestimable benefit 

 which you have conferred on me by giving 

 me your friendship." In the evening the 

 anniversary dinner was held at the Hotel 

 Metropole, when the newly elected president, 

 Sir Joseph Lister, occupied the chair. The 

 retiring president, in his anniversary address, 

 and several of the speakers at the dinner, 

 dwelt at some length on the great loss which 



