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Secretary to forward the medal to Sir Edward Frankland, with 

 an expression of the Society's sympathy with him in his loss. 



The Wilde Premium for 1899, the President proceeded to 

 say, had been awarded to Dr. Charles H. Lees, in recognition of 

 his successful researches in physics, more especially with regard 

 to the thermal conductivities both of solids and liquids. They 

 had watched with great interest his distinguished career at Owens 

 College, which had culminated in 1895 in receiving the degree 

 of Doctor of Science. They congratulated him on these dis- 

 tinctions, and wished him all success in the future. 



Dr. Lees said he felt sure that in making the award to him 

 the Council must have looked with a very lenient eye on any 

 contributions he had made to the Memoirs ; and he regarded it 

 rather as an encouragement to future work than as a reward for 

 anything he had done in the past. He proposed to use the 

 premium as a fund on which he could draw for the purchase of 

 apparatus which he might require in his future work. 



Professor William Ramsay, F.R.S., then delivered the 

 Wilde Lecture, entitled: "On the newly-discovered Ele- 

 ments of the Air, and their Relation to the Kinetic 

 Theory of Gases." 



The Lecture will be printed in full in the Memoirs. 



