400 Presidentship of Sir Edward Sabine 1869 



on many Royal Commissions, as well as on boards and coun- 

 cils of societies. His election into the Royal Society took 

 place in 1851. Next year one of the Royal Medals was 

 awarded to him. He was made one of the Secretaries of 

 the Royal Society in 1872, and elected President in 1883. The 

 Copley Medal was adjudged to him in 1888. His connection 

 with the Jermyn Street Museum and its staff of teachers and 

 surveyors led him to give much close attention to geological 

 problems. In the midst of his busy life he found time to 

 be for four years one of the Secretaries of the Geological 

 Society. At the time of his election into the Club he was 

 President of that Society, and was illuminating its Quarterly 

 Journal with his brilliant and suggestive addresses. His 

 labours in the cause of education were unceasing, not only 

 as himself an admirable teacher, but now as a member of 

 the London School-board, now as a Royal Commissioner on 

 Scientific Instruction, on the College of Science in Ireland, 

 and on the Scottish Universities, His health, never robust, 

 was further enfeebled by his untiring zeal for the good of 

 the community. He was compelled to spend the last ten 

 years of his strenuous life in the retirement of the retreat 

 which he had built for himself by the sea at Eastbourne. 

 He died in 1892 in the seventy-first year of his age. 



Captain George Hemy Richards rose through the suc- 

 cessive steps of promotion in the navy until he became 

 Vice-Admiral in 1870. Among his services he commanded 

 the Assistance in the search for Franklin in the years 1852-4. 

 The Royal Society elected him a Fellow in 1866. He was 

 created K.C.B., and in 1878 he was chosen as one of the 

 Treasurers of the Club, an office which he filled with con- 

 spicuous success for ten years. 



Frederick Augustus Abel was eminent as a chemist, 

 specially devoted to the study of explosives. His knowledge 

 of this subject led to his being given important duties under 

 the War Office, to which he was appointed chemist. He 

 was elected into the Royal Society in 1860. His public 

 services were rewarded by his being made successively C.B., 

 K.C.B., and a baronet. 



