44 Presidentship of Thomas Henry Huxley 1885 



The Anniversary Meeting of 1885 was held on i8th June 

 and the following members were then present : 



Professor Huxley, President 



Admiral Sir John Dalrymple Dr. J. H. Gilbert 



Hay Sir J. Henry Lefroy 



Admiral Sir Frederick J. Evans Dr. Joseph Prestwich 



Warren De la Rue Captain Douglas Galton 



Dr. Hugo Miiller William Crookes 



Dr. Richard Quain Nevil S. Maskelyne 



Professor George M. Humphry Sir William Armstrong 



Dr. Russell Warington W. Smyth 



Sir Henry E. Roscoe Dr. J. H. Gladstone. 



John Marshall Robert H. Scott, Treas. 

 Sir William Bowman, Bart. 



Admiral Sir George H. Richards, Treas. 



The Treasurers' financial statement showed the expenses 

 to have been 70 is. 46.., leaving an unexpended balance of 

 61 igs. zod. The subscription for the coming year was 

 fixed at i los. The number of dinners during the session 

 just concluded was twelve, which had been attended by 

 148 persons, consisting of 135 members and 13 visitors. 

 The largest attendance at any dinner was 20, the smallest 

 five. 



Resignations were received from Dr. Arthur Farre, who 

 retired on the ground of increasing age and infirmity, and 

 from Prof. Sylvester, who found that his residence out of 

 London and the calls on his time prevented him from 

 attending. He had been in 1883 appointed Savilian 

 Professor of Geometry at Oxford and was now resident 

 there. 



There were consequently two vacancies. Out of a list of 

 nine candidates the places were filled by the election of 

 J. Norman Lockyer and the Rev. Thomas George Bonney. 



The same number and arrangement of the dinners were 

 continued as were followed last year. 



At this meeting a proposal was made by the two Treasurers 

 that Rule VI relating to absentees should be abolished. This 

 met with some opposition, and as the result of a discussion 

 the following mooification of the Rule was finally adopted 



