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Royal, and Hughes Medals, besides several honorary doctorates 

 and distinctions, including a Nobel Prize. He was President of the 

 British Association in 1909, was created knight in 1908, and has 

 received the Order of Merit. 



1899. The Treasurer reported at the Anniversary Meeting 

 on April 27th, that the total number of attendances, including 

 guests, during the past year had fallen from 106 to 98 : 

 and the vacancy made by the resignation of Professor 

 Vines was filled by the election of Professor Weldon. 



WALTER FRANK RAPHAEL WELDON, son of Walter Weldon, a 

 chemist of note, was born at Highgate on March isth, 1860, and, 

 after studying medicine at University College and King's College, 

 London, went to St. John's College, Cambridge, won distinction in 

 Natural Science, and obtained a fellowship. After research at 

 Naples and a visit to the Bahamas, he worked vigorously at the 

 Marine Biological Laboratory at Plymouth, and was elected in 

 1890 F.R.S. and Professor of Zoology at University College, London. 

 In his researches he adopted, in co-operation with his colleague 

 Professor Karl Pearson, the exact statistical methods of Francis 

 Galton, applying these to variations in two species of shrimps, 

 and they may be regarded as the founders of Biometrics. His 

 election in 1899 to the Linacre Professorship of Comparative Anatomy 

 at Oxford in no way lightened his labours, which proved to be too 

 arduous for a constitution never robust, and an attack of influenza, 

 while on an Easter holiday, developed on his return to London into 

 acute pneumonia, which proved fatal on April isth, 1906. 



A quorum was not present at the November meeting 

 or until the anniversary on April 5th, 1900, when Dr. 

 Larmor, Professor Langley, and Mr. J. J. H. Teall were 

 elected to fill the vacancies made by the resignation of 

 Sir G. Darwin, and the deaths of Sir E. Frankland and 

 Professor D. E. Hughes. 



SIR JOSEPH LARMOR was bom at Magheragall, Antrim, on July I ith, 

 1857, and came from Queen's College, Belfast, to St. John's College, 

 Cambridge, where he was senior wrangler, first Smith's prizeman, 

 and Fellow in 1880. After some educational work in Ireland, he 

 returned to Cambridge, and was elected in 1903 to the Lucasian 

 Professorship, the chair of Newton and Stokes. He became F.R.S. 

 in 1892 and received a Royal Medal in 1915. He has published many 

 memoirs on mathematical physics, and the title of one, Aether and 

 Matter, will suffice to indicate the general line of his researches. 

 He was created knight in 1909, and has represented his University in 

 Parliament since 1911. 



