1887.]. 



President's A ddress. 



185 



On the Foreign List. 

 Kirchhoff", Gustav Robert. 



Change of Name and Title. 



Sclater- Booth, The Right Hon. George, to Lord Basing of Basing- 



Byllete. 



Fellows elected since 



Buchanan, John Young, M.A. 

 Cash, John Theodore, M.D. 

 Douglass, Sir James Nicholas, 



M.I.C.E. 

 Ewing, Prof. James Alfred, B.Sc. 

 Forbes, Professor George, M.A. 

 Gowers, William Richard, M.D. 

 Halsbury, Hardin ge Stanley 



Giffard, Lord, M.A. 

 Kennedy, Professor. Alexander B. 



W., M.I.C.E. 



the last Anniversary. 



King, George, M.B. 

 Kirk, Sir John, M.D. 

 Lodge, Professor Oliver Joseph, 

 D.Sc. 



Milne, Professor John, F.G.S. 

 Pickard- Cambridge, Rev. Octa- 



vi'us, M.A. 

 Snelus, George James, F.C.S. 

 Walsingham, Thomas, Lord. 

 Whitaker, William, B.A. 



The President then addressed the Society as follows : — 



During the past year death has removed from us fifteen of our 

 Fellows and one Foreign Member. It is remarkable that no less than 

 six of these had reached the age which the Psalmist takes for the 

 extreme duration of human life, while the average of the whole 

 number exceeds seventy-five years. - Within two months after our 

 last anniversary, Sir Joseph Whit worth died at the age of eighty-four. 

 Starting from an humble beginning, he attained through his talent 

 and steady application a commanding position among constructors of 

 machinery and heavy ordnance, and the truth of surface and accuracy 

 of dimensions of what came from his workshop are probably unrivalled. 

 Sir Walter Elliot, who was still older, combined a high official position 

 in India w r itk the pursuit of natural history, and was the author of 

 several papers in scientific serials. John Hymers and Thomas Gaskin 

 were mathematicians well known to Cambridge men of some standing, 

 and were both elected Fellows of our Society nearly half a century ago. 

 The former was the author of various mathematical text-books, which 

 for a long time were those chiefly used in their respective subjects by 

 Cambridge students for mathematical honours. The latter, once a 

 colleague of my own in a mathematical honour examination, was 

 famed for his skill in the solution of problems, though he has not 

 left much behind him in the way of mathematical writings, beyond a 



