398 Presidentship of Sir Edward Sabine 1868 



Frederick Pollock, and Dr. P. M. Roget were elected 

 Honorary Members. 



There were four vacancies. Out of the nine candidates 

 on the list the Earl of Rosse, Thomas Archer Hirst, General 

 John Henry Lefroy, and Dr. William Odling were elected. 



Laurence Parsons, Fourth Earl of Rosse, was the son 

 and heir of the astronomer Earl who died in 1867. He 

 inherited his father's love of science and was elected into 

 the Royal Society in 1867. He fostered the higher education 

 in Ireland, was Chancellor of Dublin University, president 

 of the Royal Dublin Society and afterwards of the Royal 

 Irish Academy. He kept up the Observatory established 

 by his father at Parsonstown. 



Thomas Archer Hirst, an eminent mathematician, was 

 Professor of Physics and subsequently of pure mathematics 

 at University College, London. In 1873 he was appointed 

 Director of Naval Studies at the Royal Naval College, 

 Greenwich. A Royal Medal was awarded to him by the 

 Royal Society in 1883. 



General Lefroy has been already referred to as a visitor 

 to the Club in 1851. Since that time he had been appointed 

 Inspector-general of army schools and afterwards Director- 

 general of Ordnance. He retired from the Army in 1870. 

 His public service, however, was not at end, for in the fol- 

 lowing year he was made Governor and Commander-in-chief 

 of the Bermudas an appointment which he retained till 

 1877, when he received the order of K.C.M.G. Still another 

 office awaited him. In 1880 he was appointed Governor 

 of Tasmania and held that position for two years. He died 

 in 1890 at the age of seventy-three. 



Dr. Odling, Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford, was for 

 four years from 1868 Fullerian Professor of Chemistry at 

 the Royal Institution. At the end of that period he obtained 

 the Waynflete chair of Chemistry, which he filled for forty 

 years, only retiring in 1912 to enjoy the rest to which his 

 long labour in teaching entitled him. He is the oldest but 

 one of all the Fellows of the Royal Society, having been 

 elected as far back as 1859. 



