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twelve in number and to be distributed one in each of the 

 months of November, December, January, April and May, 

 two in March and June, and three in February, the Anniver- 

 sary being fixed for the June meeting. 



Lord Kelvin was re-elected President and R. H. Scott and 

 J. W. Hulke were continued as Treasurers. 



Among the guests of the year reference may be made to 

 Dr. Norman Moore, historiographer of St. Bartholomew's 

 Hospital and most learned and genial of physicians, and to 

 Professor Angelo Mosso, the eminent physiologist of Turin. 



1893. The Anniversary in 1893, held on June 22nd, was 

 attended by twenty-nine members, Lord Kelvin presiding. 

 The Treasurers reported that the expenditure during the 

 past session had been 61 155. 7d., and that they had in 

 hand a balance of 61 gs. 9d. The contribution for the 

 following year was fixed at i. The twelve dinners arranged 

 for had been duly held, and had been attended by 154 

 persons, comprising 136 members and 18 guests. 



Three vacancies were declared and there were nine candi- 

 dates. As the result of several successive ballots only two 

 of the places were filled by the election of Rev. William 

 Henry Dallinger and William Chandler Roberts-Austen. 



W. H. Dallinger entered the Wesleyan ministry in 1861 

 and became Principal of Wesley College, Sheffield, but 

 resigned that office in 1888 in order to devote himself to 

 biological research. He established a microscopical labora- 

 tory near London for the purpose of studying the life- 

 history of the minuter forms of life. He was elected into 

 the Royal Society in 1880. He died in 1909. 



Professor Roberts-Austen distinguished himself when a 

 student at the Royal School of Mines in London and thereby 

 attracted the notice of Thomas Graham, Master of the Mint, 

 who took him into his staff and engaged with him in impor- 

 tant researches. On Graham's death in 1869 he was made 

 Assayer to the Mint, and in 1882 was appointed Queen's 

 Assay-master. He also held from 1880 the Chair of Metal- 

 lurgy in the Royal School of Mines. He wrote some valuable 

 papers on metals in the Philosophical Transactions and other 



