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Professor Kelland vii 



Sir Thomas Larcom x 



Sir John G-eorge Shaw-Lefevre xv 



Sir Thomas Maclear xviii 



Mr. Anthony Meryyn Reeve Story-Maskelyne xx 



Sir James Matheson xxi 



John Miers xxii 



Charles Murchison . xxiii 



Arthur Hay, Marquis of Tweeddale xxv 



John Waterhouse xxvii 



Ernst Heinrich Weber xxviii 



Bennet Woodcroft xxxii 



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