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296. The largest company was that which assembled at 

 the beginning of the session on 3ist October ; the smallest 

 attendance was on 2oth February, when only four members 

 appeared. The dates of twenty-one meetings in the coming 

 session were fixed to coincide with the meeting-days of the 

 Royal Society. 



The death of Sir Joseph H. Gilbert was announced. Sir 

 William White, on account of the state of his health, had 

 resigned his membership. Professor Larmor having been 

 appointed one of the Secretaries of the Royal Society was 

 eligible for the ex-qfficio list. There were likewise three 

 vacancies which remained over from last year. There 

 were thus five vacant places to be filled. As the result 

 of the voting the following candidates were elected : 



Professor Richard Tetley Glazebrook, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S., 

 Director of the National Physical Laboratory ; Captain 

 Henry B. Jackson, F.R.S., now Admiral, K.C.B., and lately 

 Chief of the War Staff ; Professor Herbert Hall Turner, D.Sc., 

 F.R.S., Savilian Professor of Astronomy in the University 

 of Oxford ; Frank Evers Beddard, M.A., F.R.S., Prosector 

 of the Zoological Society and George Matthey, F.R.S., an 

 eminent metallurgist. 



Mr. R. H. Scott resigned the office of Treasurer which 

 he had held for seventeen years. On the proposal of Sir 

 Andrew Noble a small committee was formed for the pur- 

 pose of presenting to him a souvenir as an expression of 

 the Club's appreciation of his long and valuable service. 

 The testimonial ultimately took the form of a silver inkstand 

 bearing a suitable inscription. 



The small number of foreign visitors to the Club this 

 year included the Privat-Docent Claude Du Bois-Reymond 

 who was teaching physiology at the German Medical School 

 at Shanghai, thus following in the footsteps of his illustrious 

 father in the University of Berlin. He was the guest of 

 Dr. Lauder Brunton on ist May. Professor William Ramsay 

 brought as his guest on 2Oth March Professor Abegg from 

 Breslau. Among the English guests were Sir Benjamin 

 Baker, the designer of the Forth Bridge, the Right Hon. 



