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Fund, and puts the above recommendations in more formal 

 terms, empowering the Council of the Royal . Society to 

 appoint committees or make the necessary arrangements 

 for managing the matter. 



At the meeting on November 24th, Dr. A. Farre and 

 Professor A. C. Ramsay were elected in the places of Professor 

 J. Phillips and Admiral Smyth, who had resigned. A 

 modification of the rule about the admission of visitors 

 (No. II.) was suggested by Mr. Homer. It was discussed 

 at the December meeting, but a resolution, brought forward 

 on January 26th, 1860, was withdrawn by him, as it did not 

 appear to be favourably regarded by a majority of those 

 present. 



DR. ARTHUR FARRE, son of a noted London physician, was born 

 on March 6th, 1811. From Charterhouse he went to Cambridge, 

 where he took the degree of M.D. in 1841, becoming F.R.C.P. two 

 years later, and holding important positions in medical education. 

 He had a great reputation in obstetrical cases, and wrote valuable 

 papers on that and microscopical subjects, dying on December I7th, 

 1887. He was elected into the Royal Society in 1839. - 



SIR ANDREW CROMBIE RAMSAY, son of a Glasgow manufacturing 

 chemist, was born in that city on Jan. 3ist, 1814. Having attracted 

 notice by a model of the Isle of Arran, exhibited at the meeting of 

 the British Association in 1840, he was placed on the Geological 

 Survey by Sir R. I. Murchison, and was employed mainly in Wales, 

 but held the Professorship of Geology at University College, London, 

 from 1847 to 1852, when he became lecturer at the School of Mines. 

 On the Survey he succeeded Murchison in 1871 as Director-General, 

 and was knighted on retiiing in 1881. A man of great activity, mental 

 and bodily, he overtaxed his strength, and died at Beaumaris after 

 a slow failure on Dec. gth, 1891. He was elected F.R.S. in 1862, 

 President of the Geological Society in the same year, and of the 

 British Association in 1880, receiving a Royal Medal from the first 

 and a Wollaston Medal from the second. His contributions to 

 physical geology were numerous ; the most noteworthy being 

 those on certain river courses, on the denudation of South Wales, 

 and on the glacial origin of lake basins in the Alps and the Black 

 Forest 



1860. At the Anniversary Meeting on April 23, Dr. 

 Carpenter succeeded Dr. W. A. Miller as Treasurer, but 

 there was no vacancy in the Club. 



