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5. Conclusion. 

 The total number of members on our roll is 102. Fully- 

 half of these have contributed papers which have been pub- 

 lished in the Society's Transactions, many of which must be 

 regarded as very important additions to the literature of 

 science. It is not my task, however, to particularize — it 

 would, in fact, be invidious for me to do so. But there is 

 one name, which I feel sure you would like me to mention — 

 the honourable name of our senior Fellow, Walter Rutt, the 

 connecting link between the old order and the new. Mr. 

 Rutt was elected fifty-three years ago, when the Society was 

 still in its callow youth, and during nearly the whole of that 

 long period he has been a member of the Council, chiefly in 

 the capacity of Hon. Secretary or Hon. Treasurer. He has 

 also filled the office of Vice-President. He has accompanied 

 the Society through all its vicissitudes of fortune, and is the 

 authority to whom one naturally appeals for information on 

 every important event in its history. Though he has contri- 

 buted but few papers to its Transactions, yet in wealth of 

 service he is probably its chief benefactor. 



APPENDIX I. 



List of Foundation Members Elected in the Year 1853. 



fBabbage, B. H. 



Babbage, Dugald 



Bompas, Dr. J. C. 



Brown, Dr. John 



Clark, A. Sydney 



Clark, Francis 

 ■^Clark, John Howard 

 fDavy, Dr. E. 



Davies, Dr. Chas. 



Dos well, CM. 

 ^Feinaigle, C. G. 



Freeling, Capt. Arthur H. 



Garran, Dr. Andrew 



Gilbert, W. B. 

 '^Gosse, Dr. Wm. 



Hamilton, Edward 



Hamilton, G. E. 



Hammond, Octavius 



Hanson. R, D. 



Hays, W. Bennett 



Kay, Robert 



Kingston, G. S. 



Mann, Charles 



Martin, E. M. 



Moore, Dr. R. W. 



Moorhouse, Dr. Matthew 



Mayo', Dr. George 



Nootnagel, H. 



Quick, N. S. 



Shell, W. H. 



Stow, R. S. 

 fWhitridge, W. W. R. 



Williams, T. G. 



Wilson, C. A. 



Wooldridge, Dr. H. 



Young, Sir H. E. Fox 

 * Young, John L. 



*Attended the first preliminary meeting, 

 t Attended the second preliminary meeting. 



