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Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics at Cambridge 
in 1879. The strain however proved too great and he resigned 
the Professorship in 1884, when he was succeeded by Mr. (now 
Sir) Joseph John Thomson. He subsequently became Pro- 
fessor of Natural Philosophy at the Royal Institution in 1887, 
but retired in 1905. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society, 
and finally became its President. He was also a medallist of 
the Royal Society (Copley, Royal and Rumford) and a Nobel 
Laureate in Physics (1904). Lord Rayleigh attained a world- 
wide reputation as a Mathematician and Physicist of the 
name in the list of their Honorary Fellows and Corresponding 
Members. The scientific papers published by him exceed four 
hundred in number. The collection published under his 
supervision by the Cambridge University Press occupies five 
substantial volumes. They contain 349 papers, of which the 
first was published in 1869 and the last in 1910. It is 
estimated that the papers published subsequently will cover 
at least one additional volume. There is no department of 
his activities were may be judged from the epoch-making 
memoir on Argon composed in collaboration with the late 
Professor Ramsay. Indeed his hand is visible when we study 
Officer of the Legion of Honour. Upon the death of the Duke 
of Cavendish, he was elected Chancellor of the University of 
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FEBRUARY, 1920. 
The Monthly General Meeting of the Society was held on 
Wednesday, the 4th February, 1920, at 9-15 P.M. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 
Forty-one presentations of books, etc., were announced. 
