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Griffiths, and Walter Frank Raphael Weldon were elected. 

 The fourth place was not filled. 



Lord Lister was re-elected President. As Professor Thorpe 

 desired to retire from the Treasurership, Major P. A. 

 MacMahon was proposed for the office, and he, together with 

 R. H. Scott, were chosen Treasurers for the ensuing year. 



Of the new members one was the present distinguished 

 Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics in the Univer- 

 sity of Cambridge, Sir Joseph Thomson, who is now President 

 of the Royal Society and also President of the Club. He 

 obtained the Fellowship of the Society in 1884. 



Dr. Griffiths is the able Professor of Experimental Philo- 

 sophy in the University College of South Wales who became 

 F.R.S. in 1895. 



Professor Weldon, who died at a comparatively early age, 

 has been already alluded to (p. 467) . 



The most interesting visitor of the year was Sir Henry 

 E. G. Bulwer, G.C.M.G., who dined with the Club on January 

 26. After an active life in which he had successively been 

 Receiver-General of Trinidad, Administrator of Dominica, 

 Governor of Labuan, Consul-General in Borneo, Lieutenant- 

 Governor and afterwards Governor of Natal, and Special 

 Commissioner for Zulu affairs and High Commissioner in 

 Cyprus, he retired in 1892, and even after he had become 

 an octogenarian he continued to frequent the Athenaeum, 

 where he had many friends. 



1900. At the Anniversary Meeting on 28th June 1900 

 the following company was present : 



Lord Lister, President 



Sir John C. Dalrymple Hay, Bart. Professor Weldon 



Sir W. J. Wharton Dr. W. J. Russell 



Sir William Crookes Professor T. Clifford Allbutt 



Sir J. Norman Lockyer E. H. Griffiths 



Sir Erasmus Ommaney Alfred B. Kempe 



Professor H. Debus Frank M' Clean 



Professor A. G. Greenhill A. A. Common 



Sir Archibald Geikie Wyndham R. Dunstan 



Professor James Dewar Professor Odling 



Captain E. W. Creak Professor H. A. Miers 



J. H. Gladstone Robert H. Scott, Treasurer 



