8 A. LIVERSIDGE. 



attainments ; results which would never be gained by the limited 

 opportunities afforded by the more formal monthly meetings. 



I feel confident that if we state on our annual programme, 

 at the beginning of the session that there will be in addition to 

 the regular monthly meetings, certain lectures, a reception, a con- 

 versazione as well as an annual dinner of the members, all on 

 fixed dates, the Society will greatly benefit, and its objects will be 

 largely promoted. Such gatherings are not merely social in their 

 effects, for anything which brings the members together tends to 

 the well being of the Society and to the advancement of science. 



Honorary Members. — In December last, Sir W. Crookes and 

 Sir W. T. Thiselton Dyer were elected Honorary Members. 



Sir William Crookes, f.r.s., is a past President of the Chemical 

 Society, of the Inst, of Electrical Engineers and of the British 

 Association, and recipient of the Royal Medal and the Davy 

 Medal awarded by the Royal Society of London. He is the editor 

 of the " Chemical News," and of many works of reference upon 

 technical chemistry, and is the author of numerous original 

 researches, notably upon radiant-matter and similar subjects. Sir 

 William was knighted in 1897 in acknowledgement of his eminent 

 services to science. He has been elected an Honorary Member on 

 account of his many brilliant and original researches and dis- 

 coveries in chemistry, as well as on account of his great and long 

 continued efforts for the promotion of science, and in recognition 

 of the assistance he has given this Society by republishing our 

 papers upon chemistry and allied subjects in the "Chemical News." 



Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer, k.c.m.g., c.i.e., b. Sc, 

 ll.b., Ph.D., F r.s., Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew, and an 

 Hon. Fell, of numerous English and Foreign Institutions and 

 Societies. He is a Fellow of the University of London and a 

 Hon. Fell. King's College, London, a late Fellow of University 

 College, London, and author of many important botanical works, 

 some of which relate to the flora of the Australasian Colonies. 

 As the Director of the Kew Gardens he has done much, and 



