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November 25, 1880. 



THE 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 

 nominated for election was read, as follows : — 



President. — William Spottiswoode, M.A., D.C.L., LL.D. 

 Treasurer. — John Evans, D.C.L., LL.D. 



o , / Professor George Gabriel Stokes, M.A., D.C.L., LL.D. 



secretaries, s ■ ___ 



I Professor Thomas Henry Huxley, LL.D. 



Foreign Secretary. — Prof essor Alexander William Williamson, Ph.D., 

 LL.D. 



Other Members of the Council. — William Henry Barlow, Pres. Inst. 



C. E. ; Rev. Professor Thomas George Bonney, M.A., Sec. G.S. ; George 

 Busk, F.L.S. ; Right Hon. Sir Richard Assheton Cross, G.C.B. ; 

 Edward Dunkin, V.P.R.A.S. ; Alexander John Ellis, B.A. ; Thomas 

 Archer Hirst, Ph.D. ; William Huggins, D.C.L., LL.D. ; Professor 

 John Marshall, F.R.C.S. ; Professor Daniel Oliver, E.L.S. ; Professor 

 Alfred Newton, M.A., Pres. C.P.S. ; Professor William Odling, M.B., 

 V.P.C.S. ; Henry Tibbats Stainton, F.G.S. ; Sir James Paget, Bart., 



D. C.L. ; William Henry Perkin, Sec. C.S. ; Lieut.-Gen. Richard 

 Strachey, R.E., C.S.I. 



Mr. A. J. B. Beresford-Hope was admitted into the Society. 



The Right Hon. Sir G. Jessel, Knt., whose certificate had been sus- 

 pended as required by the Statutes, was balloted for and elected a 

 Fellow of the Society. 



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

 them. 



The following Papers were read : — 



I. "On the Chemical Composition of Aleurone-Grains." By S. 

 H. Vines, M.A., D.Sc, Fellow of Christ's College, Cam- 

 bridge. Communicated by Dr. Michael Foster, F.R.S., 

 P reelect or of Physiology in Trinity College, Cambridge. 

 Received September 17, 1880. 



The following is an account of further researches on this subject ; 

 abstracts of results have already been given in " Proc. Roy. Soc," 

 vol. 28, p. 218, and vol. 30, p. 387. 



