PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



Camtoitrgt lljiksopljkal Botut^: 



October 29, 1894. 

 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 



Professor T. M^Kenny Hughes, President, in the Chair. 

 The officers for the ensuing session were elected as follows: — 



President : 

 Prof. J. J. Thomson. 



Vice-Presidents : 



Prof Sir G. G. Stokes, Bart., Prof Hughes, Mr F. Darwin. 



Treasurer : 



Mr Glazebrook. 



Secretaries : 



Mr Larmor, Mr Newall, Mr Bateson. 



Netu Members of Council: 



Dr Glaisher, Prof Ewing, Mr F. H. Neville, Mr E. H. Griffiths, 

 Mr W. B. Hardy, Mr H. F. Baker. 



Before vacating the Chair the retiring President, Professor 

 Hughes, read an address to the Society, referring to the history 

 of the Society during his term of office; commenting upon the 

 bearing of recent geological observations upon some of the vexed 

 questions of the day, such as the age of the earth, and ancient 

 vicissitudes of climate ; and containing a biographical notice of 

 the Bev. Leonard Blomefield, of which the following is an abridg- 

 ment. 



" The Bev. Leonard Blomefield (Jenyns) was one of our earliest 



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