on resigning office, 27 October, 1890. vii 



At the meeting which took place on the 15th November, these 

 draft Regulations were adopted, with some slight changes and 

 additions, which are not without interest : 



In Rule 4 the number of ordinary members of the Council was 

 increased to seven. To Rule 5, after the words "by ballot" was 

 added : " but that the President and Vice-President shall not be 

 eligible for more than two years successively ; and that the three 

 Senior Ordinary Members of the Council be changed every year." 

 To Rule 7 was added : " But that all Noblemen, Heads of Houses, 

 Doctors, and Professors, be ballotted for when they are proposed." 

 Rule 18 was omitted ; and a new Rule 20 was drawn up: "That 

 the Chancellor of the University be requested to accept the office 

 of Patron." 



The Regulations, as altered, having been adopted by the meet- 

 ing, the Council of the Society for the ensuing year was elected : 



President. 

 The Rev. W. Farish, B.D. Magd. Coll., Jacksonian Professor. 



Vice-President. 

 John Haviland, M.D. St John's Coll., Regius Professor of Physic. 



Secretaries. 



The Rev. A. Sedgwick, M.A. Trin. Coll., Woodwardian Professor. 

 The Rev. S. Lee, M.A. Queens' Coll., Professor of Arabic. 



Treasurer. 

 The Rev. B. Bridge, B.D., Fellow of Pet. Coll. 



Ordinary Members of the Council. 



The Rev. E. D. Clarke, LL.D. Jes. Coll., Professor of Mineralogy. 



J. Catton, B.D. Fellow of St John's College. 



T. Turfcon, B.D. Fellow of Catharine Hall. 



T. Kerrich, M.A. Magd. Coll., Principal Librarian. 



R. Wood house, M.A. Fellow of Caius College. 



The Rev. J. Cumming, M.A. Trin. Coll., Professor of Chemistry. 

 R. Gwatkin, M.A. Fellow of St John's College. 



We have seen that the meeting at which the above Regulations 

 were adopted is called "the first meeting of the Society." The 

 Minute Book of the Society, however, takes a different view, and 

 places the birthday of the Society a few weeks later. We there 

 read : 



" Minutes of the first meeting of the Cambridge Philosophical 

 Society held in the Museum of the Botanic Garden, Mon day, December 

 13, 1819, Professor Farish in the chair." 



