1879.] 



President's 



Address. 



407 



Major-General Sir Thomas Aiskew 

 Larconi. Bart., K.C.B., R.E., 

 M.KI.A. 



Sir John George Shaw Lefevre, 

 K.C.B., M.A., D.C.L. 



Sir Thomas Maclear, F.R.A.S. 



AnthonvMervyn Story Maskelyne, 



m.a." 



Sir James Matheson, Bart. 

 J. Clerk Maxwell, M.A. 

 John fliers, F.L.S. 



Charles Murchison, M.D., LL.D. 

 William Wilson Saunders, F.L.S. 

 Thomas Sopwith, M.A., F.G.S. 

 Arthur Hay, Marquis of Tweed- 

 dale. 



Sir Richard Rawlinson Vyvyan, 



Bart. 

 John Waterhouse. 

 Samuel Charles Whitbread, 



F.R.A.S. 

 Bennet Woodcroft. 



On the Foreign List. 

 Heinrich Wilhelm Dove. I Johann von Lamont. 



Fellows elected since the last Anniversary. 



Prof. John Anderson, M.D. 

 Rev. Miles Joseph Berkeley, F.L.S. 

 Sir Henry Bessemer. 

 Prof. AJexander Cram Brown, 

 M.D. 



Walter LawryBuller, Sc.D.,F.L.S. 

 Right Hon. Richard Assheton 

 Cross. 



George Howard Darwin, M.A. 

 Prof. Joseph D. Everett, M.A., 

 D.C.L. 



Prof. Francis Stephen Bennet 



Francois de Chaumont. 

 Prof. George Downing Liveiuo-, 



M.A. 



George Matthey, F.C.S. 

 George John Romanes, M.A., 

 F.L.S. 



Arthur Schuster, Ph.D., F.R.A.S. 

 Prof. Harry Govier Seeley, F.L.S. 

 Benjamin Williamson, M.A. 

 Thomas Wright, M.D.. F.G.S. 



On the Foreign. List 



Arthur Auwers. 

 Luigi Cremona. 



Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages. 



Georg Hermann Quincke. 

 Theodor Schwann. 

 Jean Servais Stas. 



The President then addressed the Society as follows : — 

 Gentlemen, 



In the spring it is our duty to elect into the Royal Society our 

 annual complement of new Fellows, and at our early summer meet- 

 ings we admit to our ranks the young and vigorous in the career of 

 science. But in the autumn, or fall, as on the other side of the Atlantic 

 it is so aptly termed, it is our custom to recount the names of 



