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THE 



ROYAL SOCIETY SELECTED 

 CANDIDATES. 



AS in former years, we give the qualifications of the 

 candidates for election into the Royal Society, who 

 were selected by the Council at its meeting on Thursday 

 last. 



William Bateson, 



M.A. Fellowof St. John's College, Cambridge. Bilfour Sludent. 

 Kollesion Prizeman of the University of Oxford. Distinguished 

 as a Zoologist. Aulh ir of the followin;^ memiirs: — "The 

 Earl> S'ayes in the Development of />tz/i2/.v^''/£J.tj«.r (sp. incert.)" \ 

 (Quart. J'^urn. Micros. .Sci. vol. xxiv., p. 208) ; " The Later j 

 i>la^i> s m the Develop nient of Hahnoglosstts Koivalevsksii^ with 

 a S"g!;e-lion as to the .'Mfiniiies of the Enteropneus'.a " (ibid., 

 vol. XXV., supplemiit, p. Si); "Con'inued Account of the 

 Lai<r .Stages in the D-velopment oi B ilain^losms Koiva^evskii, 

 aU'l "' he Morphology of the E iteroiineu-;ta" {ibid., vol. xxvi., 

 p. 511); "The Ancestry of the Clordata " {ibid., p. 535); 

 ** On ^otne V^ariations of Cardiitin eduU, apparently correlated 

 to the Conditions of Life " (Phil. Trans., 1889, p. 297} ; "Notes 

 on tht- .Senses and Habits of Marine AnimaU" (Marine Biol. 

 AS.SOC. lourn., newser.,vol. i., p. 2[i); " On the Sense Organs 

 and Perceptions of Fishes " («(>/.('., in the press). 



George Albert Boulenger, 



Assistant (First Class) in the Z mlogical Departm»nt, B.itish 

 Museum. Distinguished for his knowledge of Uerpetology. 

 Author of the Catalogues of Bairachia (2 vols., 1882) ; of 

 Lizaids (3 vols., 18S5-87) ; of Chelonians and Crocodiles (18S9). 

 In t icsc volumes, which are the standard works f >r the study of 

 ihcS'.: animals, all the species known are described, iheir 

 systematic arrangement being based on a critical examination of 

 the more recent researches into their anatomical structure and 

 geo.;rai hical distribution. He is also the author of a volume of 

 Ihr 'Fauna of Indii and Burma," which is devoted to the 

 Kep'iles and Batrachians ; and of a great number 'of memoirs 

 and papers published in the Transactions and Proceedings of the 

 Liniiean and Z jological Societies, the Geologicd M.igazlne, 

 Annali del Maseo Civico di Geiiova, and others. From iSSoto 

 1890 he has prepared the annual reports on Reptile,, Batiachians, 

 •and Fishes for the Zoological Record. 



John Rose Bradford, 



M D., D. Sc. Physician. Assistant Professor of Clinical 

 Medicine at University College. Author of " Electrical 

 Pnrnomena of Secretion " (jointly with Mr. Bayliss) (Proc. Roy. 

 S"c., 1886); " Pnysiology of Gland Nerves " (Juurn. of Physiol., 

 l8~7 and 1888); "Innervation of the Renal Blood-vessels" 

 (Pmc. Roy. .Soc, 1889); " Innervation of the Pulmonary Blood 

 Vtsscis" (j7'iY. , jointly with Mr. Dean); " Influence of the 

 Kidney on Metabolism {ibid., 1892), and other papers. 



Hugh Longbourne Callendar, 



Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Lecturer on Physics. 

 Has made imporiant investigations on the measurement of 

 temperature by electrical means. These are described in the 

 papers: — "On the Prac'ical Measurement of Temperature " 

 (Pliil. Trans., 1887 A, p. 161); "Onthe D.-termina ion of the 

 iioilin:^ Point of Sulphur, and on a Method of Standardising 

 Resistance Thermometers by reference to it" [ibid., 1891 A) 

 ■(ihis paper is written in conjunction with Mr. (iriffuhs); " On 

 the construction of Platnum Thermometers " (I'nil. Mag., July, 

 1891); " Some Experiments with a Platinum Pyrometer on the 

 Melting Points of Gold and Silver" (ibid., February, 1892}. 



William W.^tson Chf.yne, 



M.B., CM. (Elin.). F.R.C.S. (Eng.). Joint Professor of 

 Surgery in King'-. College, London. Diiiinguished as one 

 who has made discoveries in Bacteriology and Pathology, and 

 as the author of the following uorks and papers; — " On the 

 Relation of Micro-organisms to Antiicptic Dre-^sings " ( Trans. 

 Path. Soc, 1879); "Antiseptic .Surgery, its Principle-; and 

 Practice" (awarded the Jacksonian prize of the Royal College 

 of Surgeons, 1882); " On .Micro-organi-.ms in Purpura Ilijcmor- 

 rhagica " (Trans. Path. Soc, 1S84); "On Bacillus Alvei, the 

 Cause of Foul-brood in Bees," in conjunction with Mr. Cheshire 

 <Journ. Roy. Micros. .Soc, i885>; "A Study of certain of the 

 Conditions of Infection " (Brit. Med. Journ., 18S6); "On Sup- 



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puration and Septic Disease" (Lectures delivered before the 

 Royal College of Surgeons, 1887); "On the Pathol'jgy, Eti- 

 ologv, Results and Treatment of Tubercular Diseases ot Bones 

 and Joints" (awarded the Astley Cooper prize, open (o Inter- 

 national competition, 1889) ; and numerous other valuable 

 contriljutions to Bacteriology and Pathology. 



Robert Ed.mund Froude, 



Superintendent of the Admiralty Experimental Worls. Asso- 

 ciate Member of Council, Institution of Naval Architects. 

 Distinguished for original mathematical and experimental 

 investigations which have greatly .advanced knowledge of (a) 

 the resistance ofTered by water to the movements of ships ; (/') 

 the forms of ships tending to dimini-h resistance; (r) the 

 efficiency of propellers. In ihe-e departments of inquiry, he 

 for many vears assisted his father, the late Mr. W. Froude, 

 F.R.S. Since 1878 he has worked independently, and been in 

 lull charge of the .-Vdmiralty Experimental Works, first at 

 Torquay and then at Haslar. The existing eslabiishmeni, 

 with its novel mechanical arran^jements for experimenting with 

 models of ships and propellers, was designed by him. His 

 advice has been sought and given in organising similar establish- 

 ments in this country and abroad. His mathematical and 

 experimental work has had great and beneficial influence on 

 ship-designing, primarily for the Royal Navy, but also for the 

 uiercantile marine. Under his direction the system of model 

 experiments has been greatly extended, enabling naval architects 

 to proceed with great certainty in dealing with problems of 

 propulsion, and effeclin.j large economies of engine power in 

 steamships. He has published many oiiginal papers on these 

 special s ibjects, most of ihem appear in Transactions of the 

 Institution of Naval Architects. Amongst these the principal 

 papers are: "The Leading Phenomena of Wave-making 

 Resistance" (1881); " Screw Propellers and their Efficiency" 

 (1883 and 1886); "Theory of the Screw Proprller" (1889 and 

 1892). 



M. J. M. Hill, 



M.A., D.Sc, late Fellow of St. Peter's College, Cambridge. 

 Professor of Mathematics in University College, London. 

 Eminent Mathematician. Author of the following papers on 

 pure and applied Mathematics : — " The Steady Moli m of 

 Electricity in Spherical Current Sheets" ('luart. Journ. Math., 

 vol. xvi.) ; "Some Piopertits of the Equations of Hydro- 

 dynamics "(" (Y«<i'., vol. xvii. ); "On Functions of more than 

 two Variables Analogous to Tesseral Harmonics" (Trans. 

 Camb. Phil. Soc, vol. xiii.) ; "Calculation of the Equation 

 which determines the .-Vnharmonic Ritios of the Roots of a 

 l,).iintic " (Proc Lond. Math. Soc, vol xiv.); "On some 

 General Equations which include the Equations of Hydro- 

 dynamics" (Trans. Camb. Phil. Soc, vol. xiv.); "On the 

 Motion of Fluid, part of which is moving rotationally, and 

 part irrotationally " (Phil. Trans., 1S84) ; "On the closed 

 Link Polygons belonging to a System of Co-planar Forces 

 having a Simple Resultant " (Proc. Lond. Math. Soc, vol. xv.) ; 

 " The Differential Equations of Cylindrical and Annular 

 Vortices" (ibid., vol. xvi.); "On the Incorrectness of Rules 

 for Contracting the processes of finding the Square and Cube 

 Roots of a Number " (ibid., vol. xviii. ) ; " On thee- and p-Dis- 

 criminants of Ordinary Integrahle Differential Equations of 

 the First Order" (ibid., vol. xix.) ; "On Node- and Cusp- 

 Loci, which are also Envelopes" (ibid., vol. xxii.) ; " On the 

 Locus of Singular Points and Lines which occur in connection 

 with the Theory of the Locus of Ultimate Intersections of a 

 System of Surfaces" (to be published in Phil. Trans.). 



John \'iriamu Jones, 



B.Sc. (Lond.). Principal and Professor of Physics in the 

 University College of .South Wales and Monmouthshire. 

 Fellow of University College, London. Distinguished for his 

 acquaintance with physics. Engaged in the teaching of 

 jihysics as well as in the organisation of scientific studies, and 

 is anxious to promote the progress of science. Author of a 

 memoir "On the Determination of the Specific Resistance of 

 Mercury in Absolute Measure" (Phil. Trans, vol. clxxxi., 

 1S90). Author also of the following pipers: — "On the 

 Calculation of the Co-efficient of Mutual Induction of a Circle 

 and a Coaxal Helix" (Proc. Phys. Soc, vol. x.) ; "On the 

 Use of Lissajous' Figures to determine a Rate of Rotation, 

 and of a Morse Receiver to measure the Period Time of a Reed 



