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Dr. J. B. Sanderson on the Attributes of [Nov. 22, 



November 22, 1877. 



Sir JOSEPH HOOKER, C.B., President, in the Chair. 



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

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

 posed for election was read as follows : — 



President.— 8iv Joseph Dalton Hooker, C.B., M.D., D.C.L., LL.D. 

 Treasurer. — "William Spottiswoode, M.A., LL.D. 



Secretaries I ^ >ro ^ essor Ceorge G-abriel Stokes, M. A., D.C.L., LL.D. 



1 Professor Thomas Henry Huxley, LL.D. 



Foreign Secretary. — Professor Alexander "William "Williamson, Ph.D. 



Other Members of the Council.— Frederick A. Abel, C.B., V.P.C.S. ; 

 "William Bowman, E.E.C.S. ; Frederick J. Bramwell, M.LC.E. ; "William 

 B. Carpenter, C.B., M J)., D.C.L. ; William Carruthers, E.L.S. ; William 

 Crookes, Y.P.C.S. ; Prof. P. Martin Duncan, M.B., P.G.S. ; William 

 Earr, MX>., D.C.L. ; Prof. William H. Elower, E.E.C.S. ; Prof. Gr. Carey 

 Poster, B.A., E.C.S. ; John Eussell Hind, E.E.A.S. ; Lord Eayleigh, 

 M.A. ; Vice-Admiral Sir G. H. Eichards, C.B. ; Prof. Henry J. Stephen 

 Smith, M.A. ; Prof. Balfour Stewart, M.A., LL.D. ; Prof. Allen Thom- 

 son, M.D., E.E.S.E. 



The Presents received were laid on the table, and thanks ordered for 

 them. 



Mr. Brian Haughton Hodgson was admitted into the Society. 

 The following Paper was read : — 



<e Remarks on the Attributes of the Germinal Particles of Bacteria, 

 in Reply to Prof. Tyndall/'' By J. Burdon Sanderson, 

 M.D., LL.D., E.R.S. Received September 17, 1877. 



In a short paper communicated to the Eoyal Society at the close of 

 last Session Prof. Tyndall did me the honour to criticize certain words 

 reported to have been used by me at a meeting of the Association of 

 Medical Officers of Health in January last. Although I am much in- 

 debted to him for the opportunity he has thus afforded me of discussing 

 an important subject before this Society, I cannot refrain from expressing 

 my regret that he should have thought it desirable to quote at length, 

 and thus to place on permanent record in the Society's Proceedings, the 



