1887.] Classification of Animals named Dinosauria. 



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November 24, 1887. 



Professor G. G. STOKES, D.C.L., President, in the Chair. 



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

 the ensuing Anniversary Meeting, and the list of Officers and Council 

 nominated for election was read as follows : — 



President. — Professor George Gabriel Stokes, M.A., D.C.L., LL.D. 



Treasurer. — John Evans, D.C.L., LL.D. 



f Professor Michael Foster, M.A., M.D. 

 Secretaries.— ^ ThQ Rayleigh? M A? D.C.L. 



Foreign Secretary. — Professor Alexander William Williamson, LL.D. 



Other Members of the Council. — Sir William Bowman, Bart., M.D. ; 

 Henry Bowman Brady, F.L.S., F.G.S. ; Professor Arthur Cayley, 

 D.C.L., LL.D. ; W. T. Thiselton Dyer, M. A. ; Professor David Ferrier, 

 M.A., M.D. ; Edward Frankland, D.C.L. ; Arthur Gamgee, M.D. ; 

 Professor Joseph Henry Gilbert, M.A. ; Professor John W. Judd, 

 P.G.S. ; Professor Herbert McLeod, F.I.C. ; William Pole, Mus. Doc. ; 

 William Henry Preece, M.I.C.E. ; Admiral Sir George Henry 

 Richards, K.C.B. ; Professor Arthur William Riicker, M.A. ; the Earl 

 of Rosse, D.C.L., LL.D.; Sir Bernhard Samuelson, Bart., M.I.C.E. 



The Rev. Octavius Pickard- Cambridge was admitted into the 

 Society. 



The Presents received were laid on the table and thanks ordered 

 for them. 



The following Papers were read : — 



I. " On the Classification of the Fossil Animals commonly named 

 Dinosauria." By H. G. Seeley, F.R.S., Professor of Geo- 

 graphy in King's College, London. Received August 31, 

 1887. 



Three classifications of the Dinosauria have been proposed, which 

 differ from each other in the principles on which their authors 

 proposed to make the divisions. 



First in time is Professor Cope's classification (' Philadelphia, Acad. 



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