Anniversary Address by Prof. C. S. Sherrington. 5 



George Walker Walker had, following on a career of high promise at 

 Cambridge, been successively Lecturer in Physics at Glasgow University, 

 Superintendent of Eskdalemuir Observatory, Director of the hew Magnetic 

 Survey of the British Isles, and finally chief scientific worker at the Koyal 

 Naval Mining School, Portsmouth: It was during work in that latter 

 capacity that his fatal illness began. He united in a remarkable degree 

 mathematical attainment and inventive capacity. By his death physical 

 science lost, sadly early, a finely accurate experimental exponent. 



Henry Woodward, late Keeper of the Department of Geology of the 

 Natural History Museum, was a distinguished paleontologist. His scientific 

 reputation was especially as an authority on extinct representatives of the 

 Crustacea. He was one of the founders, and for over fifty years editor, of 

 the ' Geological Magazine.' His example and personal contact were a 

 stimulus to many others, and the encouragement given by him to amateur 

 workers was one of the features of his official career. 



Francis Arthur Bainbridge died last month in early middle age. He 

 had been elected a Fellow in 1919. Of delicate physique, constantly 

 struggling against ill-health, he nevertheless accomplished, besides much 

 routine teaching, a great deal of accurate research, some in pathology, 

 more in physiology. He contributed to the differential recognition of the 

 several types of paratyphoid bacilli, a matter at once of theoretical interest 

 and great practical importance. His work in physiology opened with 

 investigation of lymph formation, following on that of Bayliss and Starling. 

 Then came work on urinary and salivary secretion, all of it characterised 

 by great clearness of objective, and definiteness of plan. One of his best 

 papers is one of his most recent. Its subject is the acceleration of the 

 pulse, which muscular exercise constantly and so quickly induces. Bainbridge 

 showed that the increased filling of the venous chamber of the heart, and 

 the consequent increase of pressure in it, itself acts as a stimulus which 

 excites through the nervous system the more frequent beating of the heart. 

 He traced this control in part to depression of the vagus, partly to 

 stimulation of the nerves which accelerate the heart. Bainbrid<ie was an 

 experimentalist of exceptional dexterity. Always cheerful, he seemed at his 

 cheeriest when busiest in the laboratory. 



Lord Ducie, whose decease fell latest in the year, had been a Fellow for 

 nearly 67 years. Interested in Science, he was also greatly interested in 

 secondary education. Latterly he had given his time and abilities chiefly 

 to the countryside where he resided. By virtue of the date of his election 

 to the Society, 1855, he had become its Senior Fellow., 



We may note that the Seniority of Fellowship of the Society has now 



