2 Centenary Honorary Members. [Jan., 



The President stated that some doubts had been expressed whether 

 the Rules of the Society permitted of the election of six special Centenary 

 Honorary Members in addition to the normal number of 30 Honorary 

 Members. The Council were, however, of opinion that, as the Centenary 

 celebration was a special event not contemplated in the Rules, the 

 special course recommended by the Council might be adopted, if approved 

 at a General Meeting of the Society. He therefore asked the meeting to 

 express its approval of the course proposed. 



The proposal was unanimously approved. The President then an- 

 nounced that the Council recommended the following six gentlemen for 

 election as Special Centenary Honorary Members for the reasons specified : 



1. James Prescot Joule, LL. D., F. R. S., discoverer of the laws of 

 the evolution of heat, of the induction of magnetism by electric currents, 

 of the mechanical equivalent of heat, and the originator of the Kinetic 

 Theory of Gases. He was presented by the Royal Society in 1850 with its 

 medal, and in 1870 with the Copley medal, for his experimental researches 

 on the dynamical theory of heat. He is in receipt of a Civil List pension 

 in recognition of his eminent scientific achievements and valuable dis- 

 coveries. 



2. Professor Dr. Ernst Hackel, University of Jena, for his morpho- 

 logical and embryological discoveries, and his many valuable papers on 

 the Medusce and other forms of sea and fresh water animals. 



3. Charles Meldrum, M. A., F. R. S-J F. R. A. S, Port Louis, 

 Mauritius, on account of his valuable researches into the meteorology of 

 the Indian Ocean. 



4. A. H. Sayce, Deputy Professor of Comparative Philology in the 

 University of Oxford, on account of his distinguished services to Compara- 

 tive Philology generally, and especially to the knowledge of the Assyrian, 

 Accadian and Hittite languages. 



5. E. Senart, Member of the Institute of France, on account of his 

 distinguished services to Pali Scholarship, especially in the decipherment 

 of the ancient inscriptions of Asoka, and in editing Pali and Gatha texts. 



6. Professor Monier Williams, Boden Professor of Sanskrit in the 

 University of Oxford and founder of the Indian Institute in the same 

 University, on account of his distinguished services to the interests, 

 literary and social, of India, and his valuable grammatical and lexicogra- 

 phic contributions to Sanskrit Philology. 



The President also announced that the Special Centenary meeting, 

 at which these gentlemen would be elected Honorary Members, and the 

 Review of the Society's Researches during the Century of its existence 

 would be presented to the Society, would be held on the 15th January at 

 7-30 P. M., and would be followed by the Centenary Dinner, at which 

 H. E. the Viceroy had kindly consented to be present, at 8 p. m. 



