1867.] Notice, from the Chaii^, of Anniversary Meeting. 155 



November 21, 1867. 

 Lieut.-General SABINE, President, in the Chair. 



In pursuance of the Statutes, notice was given from the Chair of the 

 ensuing Anniversary Meeting, and the Hst of Officers and Council proposed 

 for election was read as follows : — 



President, — Lieut.-General Edward Sabine, R.A., D.C.L., LL.D. 

 Treasurer.— WiWmm Allen Miller, M.D., LL.D. 



^ ■ . r WiUiam Sharpey, M.D., LL.D. 



Secretaries.— | ^^^^^^ Q^^hxid Stokes, Esq., M.A., D.C.L., LL.D. 



Foreign Secretary .—Vvoi. WilUara Hallows Miller, M.A., LL.D. 

 Other Members of the Council. — Frederick Augustus Abel, Esq. ; 

 William Benjamin Carpenter, M.D. ; Prof. A. Cayley, LL.D. ; Jacob 

 Lockhart Clarke, Esq. ; John Evans, Esq. ; Capt. Douglas Galton, C.B. ; 

 John Peter Gassiot, Esq. ; John Hall Gladstone, Esq., Ph.D. ; Sir Row- 

 land Hill, K.C.B., D.C.L. ; William Huggins, Esq. ; Thomas Henry 

 Huxley, Esq., Ph.D. ; Prof. John Phillips, M.A., LL.D. ; Prof. Andrew 

 Crombie Ramsay, LL.D. ; Colonel William James Smythe, R.A. ; Lieut. - 

 Col. Alexander Strange ; Thomas Thomson, M.D. 



The President stated that Colonel John Le Couteur, who by reason of 

 non-payment of his annual contribution ceased to be a Fellow of the So- 

 ciety at the last Anniversary, had applied for readmission ; and an extract 

 from his letter to the Council was read, explaining the circumstances under 

 which, during his absence on the Continent, the omission of payment had 

 taken place. Notice was accordingly given that the question of Colonel 

 Le Couteur' s readmission would be put to the ballot at the next meeting. 



Mr. Gassiot, Mr. Gwyn Jeffreys, Sir John Lubbock, Mr. Rennie, and 

 Mr. Savory, having been nominated by the President, were elected by 

 ballot Auditors of the Treasurer's Accounts on the part of the Society. 



Mr. W. Boyd Dawkins was admitted into the Society. 



The following communications were read : — 



I. " On a New Class of Bodies Homologous to Hydrocyanic Acid/^ 



I.— By A. W. HoFMANN, F.R.S. Received August 20, 1867. 

 (See page 144.) 



II. " On a New Series of Bodies Homologous to Hydrocyanic Acid.^^ 



— II. By A. W. HoFMANN, LL.D., F.R.S. Received August 

 31, 1867. (See page 148.) 



III. — " On a New Series of Bodies Homologous to Hydrocyanic 



Acid.'^— 111. By A. W. Hofmann, LL.D., F.R.S. Received 

 September 7, 1867. (See page 150.) 



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