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Strachey), shows a maximum of 148 and a minimum of no ; 

 the average being 14, the largest 26, and the smallest 7. 



The meeting of the British Association at Glasgow led 

 to discussions on October 26th and November 23rd about 

 the subjects brought forward there, some members thinking 

 that, in the Statistical section, the Anthropological sub- 

 section, and the Evening Lectures, the range of these should 

 be restricted. Mr. F. Galton was in favour of empowering 

 the President, instead of the Sectional Committee, to deter- 

 mine what papers should be read, and Dr. Hooker thought 

 that matters would be improved by the appointment of 

 a paid secretary for each committee, but the discontinuance 

 of the Statistical section was evidently viewed with favour, 

 though on the other matters the members present were not 

 at all unanimous. 



1877. At the Anniversary Meeting, April 30th, two 

 vacancies were announced, due to the resignation from ill- 

 health of Sir H. James and the absence in America of Pro- 

 fessor Sylvester, but the want of a quorum postponed the 

 election till May 3ist, when one place only was filled by the 

 election of Professor Burdon-Sanderson. 



SIR JOHN SCOTT BURDON-SANDERSON, son of R. Burdon, a former 

 Fellow of Oriel, Oxford, who added the second name on marriage 

 with the only daughter of Sir James Sanderson, was born at Jesmond, 

 Newcastle-on-Tyne, Dec. 2ist, 1828. From youth he showed a 

 strong interest in Natural Science, studied medicine at Edinburgh 

 University, and there took the degree of M.D. in 1851. Afterwards 

 going to Paris, he worked at physiology under Claude Bernard, 

 and in 1853 began to practise in London, where his ability in dealing 

 with contagious and infectious diseases was soon recognized. Elected 

 F.R.S. in 1867, he gave up practice three years later, in order to 

 devote himself wholly to scientific research, and twelve months 

 afterwards succeeded first M. Foster and then Sharpey in their 

 chairs of Physiology at University College. In 1882 he became 

 Waynflete Professor of Physiology at Oxford, and in 1895 Regius 

 Professor of Medicine. He received a Royal Medal in 1883, and 

 honorary doctorates from Dublin and Edinburgh, was President 

 of the British Association in 1889, and created a baronet in 1899. In 

 1903 he resigned his professorship, and died at Oxford, Nov. 23rd, 1905, 

 leaving the reputation of a leader in physiology, especially in exact 

 experiments, and the virtual founder of the Oxford Medical School. 



