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Anniversary Meeting. 



[Nov. 30, 



Fellows elected since the last Anniversary. 



Hughes, Prof. David Edward. 

 Jeffery, Henry M., M.A. 

 Jessel, Right Hon. Sir George, 

 Knt. 



M'Coy, Prof. Frederick, F.G.S. 

 Monlton, J. Fletcher, M.A. 

 Niven, Prof. Charles, M.A., 



F.R.A.S. 

 Northbrook, Thomas George 



Baring, Earl of, D.C.L., G.C.S.L 

 Rae, John, LL.D. 

 Reynolds, Prof. J. Emerson, M.D. 

 Tilden, William A., D.Sc. 



Attfield, Prof. John, Ph.D., F.C.S. 

 Beresford-Hope, Alexander James 



Beresford, LL.D. 

 Blanford, Henry Francis, F.G.S. 

 Clifford -Allbutt, Thomas, M.A., 



M.D., F.L.S. 

 Dallinger, Rev. William Henry. 

 Dyer, William Turner Thiselton, 



M.A., F.L.S. 

 Godwin- Austen, Lieut.-Col. Henry 



Haversham. 

 Graves, The Right Rev. Charles, 



D.D., Bishop of Limerick. 



The President then addressed the Society as follows : — 



" Happy is the nation that has no history," — none, that is to say, in 

 the matter of political events, of diplomatic victories or defeats, of 

 warlike achievements, or other staple topics of record, as history is 

 wont to be written. And such, in fact, has been the state of our own 

 community during the past year. We have no great convulsions to 

 chronicle, nor changes to relate, no controversies with other bodies, nor 

 grievances at issue between us and the State. But, as with a nation, 

 so also with a society, an absence of these more striking, and perhaps 

 superficial, features, is certainly compatible with a healthful internal 

 growth, and with a steady development of the purposes for which our 

 organisation was originally intended. 



In the course of the year now ended, we have, naturally, lost some 

 of our elder Fellows but, numerically at least, our losses have not 

 been so great as during the previous year, nor have they fallen so 

 heavily on our younger members. Among those who have dropped 

 from our ranks, several had already, on account of declining powers, 

 withdrawn from active participation in our proceedings, and had 

 thereby prepared us for their final departure. Among these, two 

 stand prominently forward, men who, through long and faithful 

 service to science and to our Society, deserve to live a long and oft- 

 repeated life in the memory of their friends. 



Of Professor Miller it is difficult adequately to speak. His scientific 

 work has been well, but not too fully, described in the obituary 

 notice published in our " Proceedings." Older than myself, and older 

 than other existing officers of the Society, he seemed to belong to 

 an earlier generation. Whether it was due to the number of his 

 years, to the plenitude of his knowledge, to the judicial character 

 of his mind, to his calm but ever ready response to an inquiry, or 

 still more probably to a combination of all these qualities, certain it is 



