270 Anniversary Meeting, [Nov. 30, 



Fellows elected since the last Anniversary. 

 0)1 the Home List. 



John Charles Bucknill, M.D. 

 Rev. Frederic William Farrar. 

 "William Augustus Guy, M.B. 

 James Hector, M.D. 

 John "William Kaye, Esq. 

 Hugo Miiller, Ph.D. 

 Charles Murchison, M.D. 

 WilUam Henry Perkin, Esq. 



The Ven. John Henry Pratt, M.A. 

 Capt. George Henry Richards, R.N. 

 Thomas Richardson, Esq., M.A. 

 "Wilham Henry Leighton Russell, 

 Esq. 



Rev. Wilham Selvvyn, D.D. 

 Rev. Richard Townsend, M.A. 

 Henry Watts, B.A. 



0}t the Foreign List. 

 Franz Cornelius Donders. Gustav Rose. 



Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann. 



Reachnitted. 

 William Bird Herapath, M.D. 



The President then addressed the Society as follows : — ■ 

 Gentlemen, 



During the autumnal recess, and in the absence of the President, the 

 Treasurer, on learning that the Government had it in contemplation to 

 assign the main building of Burlington House, now appropriated to the 

 Royal, Chemical, and Linnean Societies, to the Royal Academy (together 

 with ground in its rear for the erection of additional buildings), deemed it 

 advisable in the interests of the Society, and after consultation with the 

 Senior Secretary, to address a letter to the Earl of Derby. The officers of 

 the Society were referred by his Lordship to the Chief Commissioner of 

 Works, by whom they were informed in reply that due provision was to be 

 made for the Societies, and that the Architects, Messrs. Banks and Barry, 

 with whom the Office were to advise on the subject, were instructed to 

 confer with the Council of the Royal Society. Those gentlemen having 

 accordingly communicated to the Council that they are directed to report 

 to the Government on the accommodation that can be provided for the Royal 

 and the other Societies in new buildings, to occupy part of the space between 

 Burlington House and Piccadilly, the Council have appointed a Committee 

 to consider the whole matter and to confer with the Architects thereupon. 

 The Committee have had an interview with Mr. Banks, and have handed 

 in a statement setting forth the nature and extent of accommodation that 

 will be required for the Society in lieu of their present apartments. There, 

 so far as we are informed, the matter rests for the present, but from the 

 tenor of the communications which have passed, there seems every reason 

 to feel confident that the Society will be suitably and amply provided for. 



I had the pleasure of announcing at the last Anniversary that the 



