February 27, 1902] 



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THE ROYAL SOCIETY AXD THE PROPOSED 

 ACADEMY. 



A COPY of Ihp following petition referring to the 

 proposed British Academy has been sent to us for 

 publication : — 



To the King's Most Excellent Majesty in 

 Council 



The Humble Petition of 

 AVEEURY, F.R.S., P.C, Past President, British Association 



C. RoBtRT Si'EN-CER, P.O., M. P. 



Welby, G.C.B., Past Permanent Secretary of the Treasury, 

 Alderman L.C.C. 



G. F. BRisrOL 



Rowland Blennerhassett, Bart., LL.D., President of the 

 Queen's College, Cork ; Senator of the ,Royal University 

 of Ireland 



Wm. Dunn, BarL, MP. 



LowTniAN Bell, F.R.S. 



John Kirk, G.C.M G., K.C.B , F.R S. 



VV. B. RicHMO.ND, K.C.B . R A. 



W. H. White, K.C.B., F.R.S., Past Director of Naval 

 Instruction 



W. H. Preece, K.C.B., F.R.S. , Past Engineer-in-Chief 

 G.P.O. 



C. VV. Wilson, R.E., K.C.B., F.R.S., Past Director-General 

 Ordnance Survey 



J. Norman Lockver, K.C.B , F.R.S., Director Solar Physics 

 Observatory, South Kensington 



R. (iilFEN, K.C.B., F.R.S., Past Controller-General of Com- 

 mercial Labour and Statistical Department Board of 

 Trade 



Si-ENCER Walpole, K.C.B , Past Secretary of the Post Office 



Wm. Turner, K.C B., F.R.S., President of the General 

 Medical Council ; Past President of the British Association 



Henry Craik, K.C.B., Secretary Sco;ch Education Depart- 

 ment 



Donald Mackenzie Wallace, K CLE., K.C.V.O. 



B. Baker, K.C.M.G.. F.R.S. 



A. E. Bate.man, K.C. M.G., Comptroller- General for Com- 

 merce, Labnui and Statistics Board of Trade 



.\kchibald Geikie, F.R.S., Past Director-General of Geo- 

 logical Survey ; Past President of the British Association 



William Crookes, F.R.S., Past President of the British 

 Association 



H. T. Wood, Secretary of the Society of Arts 



W. Martin Conway, Slade Professor of Fine Arts, Cambridge 

 University ; Past Chairman of the Society of Authors 



Joshua G. Fitch, Past Chief Inspector of Training Colleges 



Lauder Brunton, F.R.S., Physician to St. B.irtholomew's 

 Hospital 



OwEM Roberts, Clerk to Worshipful Company of Cloth- 

 Workers 



Wemyss Reid 



C. Hubert H Parky, Professor of Music, Oxford University 

 J. Benjamin Stone, M.P. 



Walter Parratt, M.V.O., Master of the King's Musick 



Walter Foster, M.D., D.C.L., M.P. 



Joseph Leich, M.P. 



Lewis Morris 



R. R. Holmes, C.V.O., Librarian to His Majesty at Windsor ; 

 Fellow and Member of Council of the Society of Anti- 

 quaries 



E. Robert Festinc, F.R.S., Director Science Museum, South 

 Kensington 



E. W. Brabrook, C.B., Chief Regislrar of Friendly Societies; 

 F..S.A., Past President .Anthropological Institute 



D. R. Fearon, C. B., Charity Commissioner 

 Edward Dicey, C.B. 



A. Schuster, F.R.S., Professor of Physics the Owens College, 



Manchester 

 R. Mei.doi.a, F.R.S., Professor of Chemistry Finsbury 



Technical College 

 Horace T. Brown, F.R.S. 

 John I. Thornvcroft, F.R.S. 



T. G. BONNEY, F.R.S., Past President Geological Society 

 Sidney Lee 

 Cecil Smith, Assistant Keeper Department of Greek and 



Roman Antiquities British Museum 



NO. 1687. VOL. 65] 



George A. Macmillan, Hon. Sec. Hellenic Society 

 Charles Villiers Stanford, Professor of Music Cambridge 



University 

 N. Maccoli. 

 T. Bavley, M.P. 

 A. Siemens 

 A. A. Common, F.R..S., Past President Royal Astronomical 



Society 

 Emanuel Green, Vice-President Royal Aickieological 



Institute 



F. C. Penrose, F.R.S., Past President Royal Institute of British 



.Architects 



E. Robertson, K.C, M.P. 



John Perry, F.R.S., Professor of Mathematics Royal College 

 of Science 



T. Bailey Saunders 



A. Conan Doyle 



T. Clifford Allbutt, F.R.S., Regius Professor of Physic 

 in the University of Cambridge 



Benjamin Kidd 



C. II. Read, Keeper of British Antiquities British Museum ; 

 Secretary Society of Antiquaries and Past President Anthro- 

 pological Institute 



G. Hy. Boughton, R.A. 



S. .Alexander, Professor of Philosophy at the Owens College 

 Alfred Hopkinson. Principal of the Owens College 

 Sidney J. Hickson, F.R.S., Professor of Zoology the Owens 



College 

 J. F. Tout, Professor of History the Owens College 

 Horace Lamb, F.R.S., Professor of Mathematics the Owens 



College 

 A. S. WiLKiNS, Professor of Latin and late of Comparative 



Philology the Owens College 

 W. Bromley-Davenport, M.P. 

 Frederick Wm. Fison, M.P. 

 H. S. King, M.P. 

 Thos. p. Whittaker, M.P. 

 Reginald Lucas, M.P. 

 A. G. Greenhill, F.R.S., Professor of Mathematics Artillery 



College, Woolwich 

 Isambard Owen, Deputy Chancellor of the University of 



Wales 

 Alfred C Haiuion, F.R.S., President of the Anthropological 



Instituie 

 W. 1. M. Hill, F.R.S., Professor of Mathematics University 



College, London 

 Hereford B. George, Fellow of New College, O.'cford 

 W. H. Hadow, Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford 

 W. A. Spooner, Fellow of New College, Oxford 

 A. V. Richard, Fellow of New College, Oxford 

 Oliver J. Lodge, F.R.S., Principal, University of Birmingham 

 J. H. POYNTING, F.R.S., Professor of Physics University of 



Birmingham 

 Benedict W. (}insburg, LL.D. (Cantab.) 

 P. S. Craigie, Hon. Sec. Royal Statistical Society 

 R. Henry Rew 



G. Griffith, Assistant General Secretary British Association 

 E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., Director of the Natural History 



Departments British Museum 

 Percy F. Frankland, F.R.S., Professor of Chemistry 



University of Birmingham 

 John G McKendrick, F.R.S., Professor of Physiology 



University of Glasgow 

 Bertram C .\. Windle, F.R.S., Professor of Anatomy and 



Dean of the Medical Faculty University of Birmingham 

 David Ferrier, F.R.S., Professor of Neuro-Pathology King's 



College, London 

 O. He.n'rici, F.R.S., Professor of Mathematics Cily and Guilds 



Central Technical Institute 

 W. Greenwell, F.R.S., Canon of Durham 

 Reginald L. Poole, Lecturer in Diplomatic in the University 



of Oxford 

 P. L. Sclater, F.R.S., Secretary Zoological Society 

 George Brodrick, Warden of Merton College, Oxford 

 Alex. Crum Brown, F.R.S., Professor of Chemistry Uni- 

 versity of Edinburgh 

 James Geikie, F.R.S., Professor of Geology University of 



Edinburgh 

 E. .\. Schafer, F.R.S., Professor of Physiology University of 



Edinburgh 



