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and on the effect of light on water-colours. In 1897 he published 

 the results of studies on the photographic effects of uranium salts, 

 of zinc, and of a variety of organic substances. A lover also of 

 flowers, of scenery, and of nature, he had a residence, from 1882, 

 near Chagford, but after fifteen years moved to one at Ringwood, 

 where he died after a short illness on Nov. i2th, 1909. 



1896. At the Anniversary Meeting on April 23rd, the 

 average attendance during the year was stated to have 

 been 10-3 as compared with n in the previous year, and the 

 vacancy made by the transfer of Sir James Paget to the 

 list of honorary supernumerary members was filled b} 7 

 the election of Dr. Lauder Brunton. 



SIR THOMAS LAUDER BRUNTON, Consulting Physician to St. 

 Bartholomew's Hospital, and so well known in medical and scientific 

 circles, was born at Hiltonshill in Roxburghshire on March I4th, 

 1844, but obtained the doctorates of Medicine and of Science in the 

 University of London. He was also an honorary LL.D. of Edinburgh 

 and Aberdeen, and elected F.R.S. in 1874. His scientific writings 

 deal with pharmacology, therapeutics, assimilation, and the circula- 

 tion, and he also wrote on the relations of the Bible and Science. 

 He was created knight in 1900 and a baronet in 1908, dying on 

 September i6th, 1916. 



At the meeting on November igth, when there was one 

 vacancy, though the Club had lost three of its members 

 its founder Sir W. Grove, Professor Prestwich, elected in 

 1860, and Sir G. M. Humphry, who only was one of its 

 ordinary members a quorum was not obtained till the 

 anniversary on April 8th, 1897, when Professor Tilden was 

 elected. In the interval the Club had lost Professor 

 Sylvester, but his death did not add to the vacancies. 



As SIR WILLIAM AUGUSTUS TILDEN, though he has retired from 

 professorial work, is still vigorous, it will suffice to say that he was bom 

 in London on Aug. i5th, 1842, became D.Sc. of its University, and, 

 after being Professor of Chemistry at Mason's College, Birmingham, 

 was elected in 1894 to the same position in the Royal College of 

 Science, London, from which he retired in 1909. He has made 

 many valuable contributions to chemical science and its history, 

 is an honorary doctor of Dublin, Manchester, and Birmingham, was 

 elected F.R.S. in 1880, and has received the Davy Medal. 



1897. At the meeting of Oct. 25th, the Chairman gave 

 as a toast, " Long Life and Prospenty to the Philosophical 



