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expenditure had amounted to 77 6s. 7d., leaving a balance 

 of 89 195. 5d. to be carried forward to next year's account. 

 The subscription for the following year was fixed at one 

 pound. The twelve dinners held in the course of the past 

 year had been attended in all by 187 persons, whereof 166 

 were members. The largest attendance at any dinner was 

 28, the smallest six. 



The death of Professor Henry J. S. Smith was announced. 



One member, I. Lowthian Bell, lost his membership 

 through non-attendance. There were thus two vacancies, 

 which were filled by the election of Professor James Dewar 

 and Professor George Murray Humphry. 



It was agreed that there should be twelve meetings in the 

 ensuing year, distributed as follows : one in each of the 

 months of November, December, April and June, and two 

 in January, February, March and May, the meeting on 

 I9th June to be the Anniversary. 



Professor Dewar at the time of his election into the Club 

 had been for six years a Fellow of the Royal Society, and 

 had already gained a high reputation as an original investi- 

 gator of chemical problems. Since that time the volume 

 of research which he has accomplished has grown into 

 large dimensions. His entry into the domain of low- 

 temperature experimentation opened up a new field of 

 investigation which he has cultivated with remarkable 

 success. The value of his labours has been amply recog- 

 nised both at home and abroad. The Royal Society has 

 awarded him the Rumford, Davy and Copley Medals, and 

 has published the more important of his discoveries. He 

 has been honoured with many distinctions by Universities 

 and learned societies all over the world. In 1904 he had 

 knighthood conferred on him. The successor of Davy, 

 Faraday and Tyndall in the Fullerian Professorship, he has 

 fully maintained the renown of the Royal Institution as 

 a centre of active scientific discovery, and there he still 

 labours with undiminished zeal. 



Professor George Murray Humphry, surgeon and ana- 

 tomist, was elected into the Royal Society in 1859. He 



