1889-90 Com. E. W. Creak; Sir Erasmus Ommanney 451 



dent of the Royal Society since 1899, having been elected 

 into the Society in 1881. He was knighted in 1912. 



Commander Ettrick William Creak, R.N., was for many 

 years attached to the Hydrographic Department of the 

 Admiralty, where he became Superintendent of Compasses. 

 He was elected into the Royal Society in 1885. 



Professor William G. Adams, Fellow of St. John's College, 

 Cambridge, was for many years Professor of Natural Philo- 

 sophy and Astronomy in King's College, London. At one 

 time President of the Society of Electrical Engineers, at 

 another President of the Physical Society, he united full 

 scientific knowledge of the problems of electricity with 

 ample acquaintance with its practical applications. He was 

 elected into the Royal Society in 1872. He died in 1915. 



A few details of Sir Erasmus Ommanney's career have been 

 already given (p. 419). 



1890. The Anniversary Meeting on 26th June 1890 1 was 

 attended by the following company : 



The Right Honourable Sir John C. Dalrymple Hay, Bart, in the chair 



Sir Frederick Abel Professor N. Story Maskelyne 



Professor W. G. Adams Dr. Hugo Miiller 



Dr. T. Lauder Brunton Captain Andrew Noble 



Professor R. B. Clifton Professor Odling 



William Crookes Rev. Professor Price 



Dr. H. Debus Sir George H. Richards 



Professor James Dewar Professor Arthur W. Riicker 



Dr. J. H. Gilbert Professor Edward T. Thorpe 



Sir John Hawkshaw Captain W. Wharton 



Dr. George Johnson R. H. Scott \ Treasurers 



A. B. Kempe J. W. Hulke/ 1 

 J. Norman Lockyer , 



The Treasurers reported that the expenditure since the 

 last Anniversary had amounted to 61 95. id., and that 

 the balance remaining in their hands was 76 I2s. 5d. 

 The subscription of one pound, which had now become 



1 The meetings of the Club, which for at least twenty-three years had 

 been held at Willis's Rooms, King Street, St. James, were this year 

 transferred to Limmer's Hotel, Conduit Street. They do not seem to 

 have continued at St. James's Hall for more than four or five years. 

 The oldest memorandum of dinners at Willis's Rooms is of date 3rd July, 

 1867. 



