444 Presidentship of George Gabriel Stokes 1886 



Thomas Edward Thorpe, Professor Arthur William Riicker 

 and Captain W. J. LI. Wharton. 



Professor Stokes was formally elected President and the 

 two Treasurers were continued in their office. On the 

 motion of Sir John Dalrymple Hay it was agreed that 

 " Any gentleman who has filled the office of President of 

 the Royal Society shall be considered an Honorary Member 

 of the Club." 



Of the six new members four were then actively engaged 

 in the duties of teaching science as well as in original research. 



Professor Clifton (F.R.S. 1868) was in 1860 elected a 

 Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. After holding the 

 Professorship of Natural Philosophy at Owens College, 

 Manchester, he in 1865 accepted the Professorship of 

 Experimental Philosophy at Oxford, from which he has 

 recently retired. He has devoted himself to the develop- 

 ment of physics as one of the studies of the University, 

 and in this connection he designed and supervised the 

 construction of the Clarendon Laboratory, which was the 

 first established in England for practical instruction in 

 physics. 



Professor Moseley (F.R.S. 1877), educated at Harrow and 

 Oxford, was one of the naturalists of the Challenger Expedi- 

 tion. He was much engaged in working out the zoological 

 material collected during the voyage. Besides what he con- 

 tributed to the volumes of the Reports, he published in 1879 

 a pleasant volume entitled " Notes by a Naturalist on the 

 Challenger." In 1881 he was appointed Linacre Professor 

 of Human and Comparative Anatomy in the University 

 of Oxford. He was elected into the Royal Society in 1877. 

 In 1878 he gave the Croonian Lecture, choosing as his 

 subject a Family of Hydroid stony Corals. To the great 

 loss of science he died in 1891. 



Professor Thorpe (F.R.S. 1876) held at this time the Chair 

 of Chemistry in the Royal College of Science. Subsequently 

 he accepted the Directorship of the Government Laboratories 

 in London, and after having retired from that office, 

 generously returned for a short time to his former pro- 



