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Lapland, Spitzbergen, and other northern regions in successive 

 summers, besides visiting the West Indies. In 1866 he was elected 

 Professor of Zoology at Cambridge, where his geniality and en- 

 thusiasm attracted not a few undergraduates to that study. His 

 <hief work was a Dictionary of Birds, but he wrote many valuable 

 papers, especially on the Dodo (from remains collected by his brother 

 Sir E. Newton in Mauritius) and the Great Auk, whose last haunts 

 he had visited and of which he had six eggs in his splendid collection 

 {bequeathed to the University). He was elected F.R.S. in 1870, and 

 awarded a Royal Medal in 1900, dying in his College rooms on 

 June yth, 1907. 



SIR ANDREW NOBLE, who did so much for the improvement of 

 artillery, was born in Scotland on Sept. isth, 1831, and obtained 

 a commission from Woolwich, where he made a special study of the 

 science of gunnery. In 1860 he joined the firm of Sir W. Whitworth 

 and Co., ultimately becoming the Chairman of the Company. Elected 

 F.R.S. in 1870, he was awarded a Royal Medal in 1880, and has 

 "been the recipient of several other medals, honorary degrees, and 

 foreign orders. He was created C.B. in 1880, K.C.B. hi 1893, and 

 a baronet in 1902, and, notwithstanding his many duties, wrote 

 much on scientific questions connected with explosives and artillery. 

 He died at Jesmond Dene, near Newcastle-on-Tyne, on Oct. 22nd, 



SIR EDWARD BURNET TYLOR, the distinguished anthropologist, 

 was born at Camberwell on October 2nd, 1832, his father, a member 

 of the Society of Friends, being chief of a noted firm of brassfounders 

 in Newgate Street, but he gave up business for anthropology at an 

 early age, travelled in Mexico, wrote important books on that 

 journey, the Early History of Mankind, Primitive Culture, and Anthro- 

 pology, which led to his appointment as Keeper of the University 

 Museum at Oxford in 1883 and its first Professor of Anthropology 

 in 1896. He was elected F.R.S. in 1871, received honorary degrees 

 from St. Andrews, Aberdeen, McGill, and Oxford, and was knighted 

 in 1912. On resigning his chair in 1909 he retired to Wellington, 

 Somerset, where he died on Jan. 2nd, 1917. 



1882. At the Anniversary Meeting on April 24th, Sir 

 J. H. Lefroy was elected Treasurer in place of Dr. Allen 

 Thomson and Prof. F. M. Balfour a member of the Club to 

 fill the existing vacancy. Professor Huxley referred in 

 feeling terms to the recent death of Charles Darwin, stating 

 that when the news reached the Royal Society the President 

 (Mr. Spottiswoode) immediately telegraphed to the Dean 

 of Westminster (Dr. Bradley), who happened to be abroad, 

 requesting that the interment should be in Westminster 



