H. C. RUSSELL. 
Honorary Member: 
Sir George Biddell Airy, M.A., F.R.8. 
Ordinary, Members: | 
Abbott, T. K., 
Allwood, Rev. Canon, B.A., 
Campbell, Alexander, 
Collie, Rev. Robert, F.L.s., 
Delarue, L. H., 
Hay, Sir John, K.c.M.G., M.L.C., M.A., 
Josephson, J. Frey, F.G.s., 
Neill, William, 
Robertson, Thomas 
Wilkinson, C. S., F.G.S., F.L.S., 
Woodhouse, E. B., 
Elected. Died. 
1884, 4 Jan. 1892 
1877, 1 Aug. 1891 
1856, 27 Oct., 1891 
1876, 8 Nov. 1891 
1878, 18 Apr. 1892 
1881, 12 July 1891 
1874, 20 Jan. 1892 
1863, 26 Jan. 1892 
1873, 24 Mar. 1892 
1871, 1 Oct. 18929 
1874, 26 Aug.1891 
1879, 23 July 1891 
The Society has sustained a great loss in the death of one of its 
most distinguished Honorary Members. Sir Grtorce BIpDELL 
Ary, M.A. Cantab. Senior Wrangler and First Smith’s Prizeman, 
K.C.B. D.C.L. Oxon., LL.D. Cantab. et Hdin., F.R.S.; made Fellow in 
1836,and 1871 to1873 President of the Royal Society, Fellowof the 
Council of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1830 to 1886 ; Presi- 
dent of the Royal Astronomical Society five times; one of the 
eight Foreign Members of the French Institute ; Corresponding 
Member of many foreign academies, &c., &e.; received the Copley 
Medal of the Royal Society 1831. 
Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society. Received the 
Lalande Medal of the French Académie des Sciences. Was 
awarded the Albert Medal of the Society of Arts, and in 1875 
was presented with the Freedom of the City of London. 
George Biddell Airy was born 27th July 1801, and died Jan. 
1892. 
great mathematical ability, and having acquitted himself with 
Twice he was awarded the 
Very early in his school days he gave indications of his 
great credit at school, in 1819 he entered Trinity College, Cam- 
bridge, as a sizar. His college career was a most distinguished 
one. In 1822 he was made a Foundation Scholar, and in 1823 
graduated as Bachelor of Arts with the honours of Senior Wrangler 
and First Smith’s Prizeman, coming out so far ahead of the second 
