406 Sir George B. Airy, Pres. R.S. 1873 



mouth to mouth in the society of his time. He was elected 

 into the Royal Society for his consummate mathematical 

 prowess in 1861. He died in 1883 m the 57th year of his 

 age. 



George Owen Rees, M.D., who became F.R.S. in 1843, 

 a well-known London physician, successively gave the 

 Gulstonian and Croonian lectures and the Harveian oration 

 at the Royal College of Physicians. He was often employed 

 in important criminal investigations. 



. 1873. The Anniversary Meeting on June 26, 1873, was 

 attended by thirty-one members and Sir Edward Sabine 

 presided. The Treasurers presented their annual financial 

 statement, which showed that the expenses for the past 

 year amounted to 125 i8s. 6d., leaving a deficit of 2 2s. 8d. 

 The number of dinners had been 22 attended by 294 diners, 

 including 53 visitors. The average attendance at each 

 dinner was 13-4. 



The subscription for the following year was fixed at two 

 guineas. The dinners during the vacation were arranged 

 to be provided on Thursdays I7th July, nth September, 

 and i6th October at half -past six o'clock. No absentees 

 were reported this year. 



The death of Richard Partridge was announced. The 

 meeting was informed that Professor Huxley could now be 

 transferred from the ordinary to the ex-qfficio list, as he had 

 been elected Secretary of the Royal Society ; further, that 

 Sir John Rennie, having reached his 8oth year, could now 

 be made an Honorary Member. Thus three vacancies would 

 arise, which it was agreed to fill up. There were nine 

 candidates. On the votes being taken John Marshall, 

 Nevil Story Maskelyne, and Henry Wollaston Blake were 

 elected. 



John Marshall, surgeon, anatomist, and physiologist, after 

 being for a time Demonstrator of Anatomy at University 

 College, London, became Professor of Surgery. He was 

 elected by the Royal Academy to be their Professor of 

 Anatomy in 1873, and held that office up to the time of his 

 death in 1891. He was also Professor of Physiology at 



