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The Treasurers' balance sheet showed an expenditure of 

 61 iSs. nd. and a balance in hand of 46 i8s. id. The 

 usual contribution of i was agreed to. The twelve dinners 

 provided for during the session had been held and had been 

 attended by 173 diners, comprising 146 members and 27 

 guests. The largest attendance was 32 at the last Anni- 

 versary ; the smallest was six on January 25th and March i . 



Professor Thorpe having been elected Foreign Secretary 

 of the Royal Society was eligible for transference to the 

 Official List, causing a vacancy in the Ordinary membership, 

 which, together with the place left unfilled last year, made 

 two vacancies which were now open for election. There 

 were eleven candidates on the list. As the result of the 

 voting Professor Henry Edward Armstrong and Professor 

 Edward Bagnall Poulton were elected. 



The question of the fusion of this Club and the Philo- 

 sophical Club was once more seriously discussed at this 

 meeting. As the result of the discussion a motion was 

 made " That this Anniversary Meeting of the Royal Society 

 Club is desirous that steps shall be taken to effect an 

 amalgamation between the Philosophical Club and this 

 Club." This motion on a show of hands was declared by 

 the President to be carried. 



A further motion was then proposed : :< That the Trea- 

 surers be requested to communicate the foregoing resolution 

 to all the members of the Club, in order to ascertain whether 

 they are or are not in favour of it." This motion was also 

 declared by the President to be carried. 



Lord Lister was re-elected President of the Club, and the 

 two Treasurers were also re-elected. 



Prof. Armstrong, elected into the Club at this Anniversary, 

 is Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at the City and Guilds 

 College, South Kensington. He was elected into the Royal 

 Society in 1876 and was awarded the Davy Medal in 1911. 



Professor Poulton since 1893 has been the Hope Professor 

 of Zoology in the University of Oxford. He was elected 

 into the Royal Society in 1889. He has been President of 

 the Entomological Society and of the Linnaean Society, and 



