210 Record of the Royal Society. 



Years 



Date of in 



Election. Offic-e. 



Sir Joseph D. Hooker Nov. 30, 1873 



I. June 30, 1817. Botanist to Sir J. C. Ross's voyage ("Erebus" and 

 "Terror"). Botanist to the Geological Survey. Expedition to 

 India and the Himalayas (1848) ; to Syria (1860). Pres. Brit. 

 Assoc. (1868). Botanical Expedition to Marocco (1871) and 

 across America (1877). Director of Royal Gardens at Kew 

 (1865-85). 



William Spottiswoode Nov. 30, 1878 



b. Jan. 11, 1825 ; d. June 27, 1883. Mathematician, Physicist, and 

 Oriental Scholar. Queen's printer. Lecturer in Mathematics at 

 Balliol College. Meditationes Analyticce (1847). Numerous 

 papers on the Polarisation of Light and other physical subjects in 

 the ' Philosophical Transactions,' ' Phil. Mag.,' &c. Pres. Math. 

 Soc. (1871). Pres. Brit. Assoc. (1878). 



Thomas Henry Huxley July 5, 1883 



b. May 4, 1825 ; d. June 29, 1895. Lecturer on General Nat. Hist, at 

 the Metropolitan School of Science (1854). Naturalist to the Geo- 

 logical Survey (1855) ; subsequently Prof, of Biology in the 

 Royal College of Science. Eiillerian Professor of Physiology in the 

 Royal Institution (1856-58). Hunterian Professor at the Royal 

 College of Surgeons (1863-70). Pres. Geolog. Society, and of 

 the Brit. Assoc. (1870). Inspector of Fisheries (1881). Trustee 

 of the Brit. Museum. Member of many Royal and other Commis- 

 sions. 



Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Bart Nov. 30, 1885 



b. Aug. 13, 1819. Senior Wrangler (1841). Lucasian Professor of 

 Mathematics (1849). Lecturer on Physics at the Royal School of 

 Mines (1854-60). Pres. Brit. Assoc. (1869). Author of Burnett 

 Lectures on Light (Aberdeen) and Gifford Lectures on Natural 

 Theology (Edinburgh), and of various mathematical and physical 

 papers in the 'Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical 

 Society,' the ' Philosophical Transactions,' and other scientific 

 serials. 



Lord Kelvin (Sir William Thomson) Nov. 30, 1890 



b. June 26, 1824. Second Wrangler and first Smith's Prizeman at 

 Camb. (1845). Prof, of Nat. Philosophy in Glasgow Univ. (1846). 

 Pres. Brit. Assoc. (1871). Author of numerous papers on heat, 

 electricity, and other physical subjects in the ' Philosophical 

 Transactions,' ' Phil Mag.,' &c. Author of ' Treatise on Natural 

 Philosophy' in conjunction with Professor Tait. Inventor of the 

 mirror galvanometer, siphon recorder, a special form of mariner's 

 compass, and naval sounding machine, and many electrical measur- 

 ing instruments. 



