1896 Prof. G. Gary Foster; Prof. V. Hors/ey 469 



1896. The Anniversary Meeting of 1896 was held on 25th 

 June and was attended by twenty-seven members with 

 Sir John Dalrymple Hay as Chairman. The Treasurers' l 

 statement gave the expenses to have been 64 75. and the 

 balance in hand to be 45 175. 5d. The contribution for 

 the coming session was fixed at i, which had now become 

 the usual sum. At the twelve dinners in the course of the 

 year the attendance was 204, made up of 169 members and 

 35 guests. 



General Pitt-Rivers resigned his membership on account 

 of the state of his health, which prevented him from coming 

 to London. 



Including the place that was not filled up last year there 

 were two vacancies. Out of the five candidates on the list 

 the choice of the meeting fell upon Professor G. Gary Foster 

 and Professor Victor A. H. Horsley, who were declared 

 duly elected. 



Professor Gary Foster was the distinguished Professor of 

 Physics in University College, London, from 1865 to 1893 

 and Principal of the College from 1900 to 1904. He has 

 now retired from active life. He was elected into the 

 Royal Society in 1869. 



Professor Horsley (F.R.S. 1886), Emeritus Professor of 

 Clinical Surgery and Consulting Surgeon at University 

 College Hospital, gained a high reputation in his profession 

 and made some important discoveries, particularly in regard 

 to the functions of the thyroid gland. He was knighted 

 in 1902. He took a keen interest in all movements which 

 he thought would advance the welfare of the community. 

 He was one of those medical men in large practice who 

 generously went to France early in the War to give their 

 services to the sick and wounded. In this noble effort he 

 lost his life. 



1 Only the senior Treasurer was present on this occasion, his junior 

 colleague having met with a slight bicycling accident. The incident gave 

 rise to the following motion which was proposed and carried at this meet- 

 ing : " That while expressing profound sympathy with its absent Treasurer, 

 the Club would suggest that in future its Treasurers should not indulge 

 in the folly of bicycling, particularly in the use of feminine bicycles." 



