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Dr. T. Clifford Allbutt has been the Regius Professor of 

 Physic in Cambridge University for nearly a quarter of a 

 century and is one of the most eminent physicians in the 

 country. He was elected into the Royal Society in 1880. 

 The honour of Knight Commander of the Bath was con- 

 ferred on him in 1907. 



Lazarus Fletcher, M.A., now Director of the Natural 

 History Department of the British Museum, is one of the 

 most accomplished mineralogists in this country. The 

 mineral galleries of the Museum, of which he had immediate 

 charge for some nineteen years, bear witness to his mastery 

 of his subject and to his power of skilful and tasteful arrange- 

 ment. In recognition of his services to science and the 

 State he was knighted in 1915. 



Sir William Savory, surgeon, studied at St. Bartholomew's 

 Hospital and afterwards lectured there on general anatomy 

 and surgery. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of 

 Surgeons in 1852, and was President for four years from 1885 

 to 1889. He looked with disfavour on the introduction of 

 antiseptic treatment in surgery. Appointed Surgeon- 

 Extraordinary to Queen Victoria in 1887, he was created 

 a baronet three years later. He became F.R.S. in 1858. He 

 died in 1895. 



The visitors included a few who became conspicuous in 

 the world of science. Among these was John Viriamu 

 Jones, who in 1881, at the early age of five-and-twenty, was 

 appointed Principal and Professor of Mathematics and 

 Physics in the Firth College, Sheffield, and two years 

 later was chosen the first Principal of the University 

 College of South Wales. He died in 1901, to the deep grief 

 of all who knew him and to the heavy loss of the science 

 of electricity, to which he had devoted his fine talents. He 

 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1894. 



Herbert H. Turner, introduced by the Astronomer Royal, 

 was three years afterwards appointed Savilian Professor of 

 Astronomy at Oxford University, an office which he still 

 worthily holds. 



Edward A. Schafer, who came on May ist as the guest of 



