1886-7 Prof. E. T. Thorpe; Prof. A. W. Rucker 445 



fessorship to assist the Royal College, which had now 

 become the Imperial College of Science and Technology. 

 He has been President of the Chemical Society and Foreign 

 Secretary of the Royal Society. He is the author of a 

 Dictionary of Chemistry and of some admirable volumes on 

 the history of the science and the lives of some of its most 

 eminent leaders. He was made C.B. in 1900 and knighted in 

 1909. 



Arthur William Riicker (F.R.S. 1884), FeUow of Brasenose 

 College, Oxford, was this year appointed to the Professorship 

 of Physics in the Royal College of Science, London, which 

 in 1901 he relinquished in order to undertake the difficult 

 duties of Principal of the University of London, which 

 he discharged until 1908, when he retired. He was Presi- 

 dent of the British Association in 1901 and of the Physical 

 Society in 1893, Secretary of the Royal Society for six 

 years, and he served on several Royal Commissions on 

 educational enquiries. He conducted in association with 

 Professor Thorpe a magnetic survey of the British Isles. He 

 was knighted in 1902. He filled an important place in the 

 scientific life of his time, contributing by his own researches 

 to the progress of physics, and by his admirable business 

 qualifications to the efficient working of all the organisa- 

 tions with which he was connected. He died in 1915. 



Captain Wharton's high claims to distinction have been 

 already referred to (p. 439). 



Of the twenty visitors who dined with the Club in the 

 course of the year, allusion may be made here to Professor 

 Brush of Yale University, who was introduced by War- 

 rington Smyth. For many years he was one of the ablest 

 mineralogists in the United States and taught with marked 

 success at the Sheffield Scientific School, New Haven, 

 over which he presided. 



1887. The Anniversary Meeting of 1887, held on June 23, 

 was attended by twenty members and Professor Stokes 

 presided. The financial statement submitted by the Trea- 

 surers showed the expenses to have been 69 is. 7d., leaving 

 an available balance of 80 os. 2d. The subscription for 



