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method of wide application for effecting the synthesis of organic com- 

 pounds. This method consists in bringing together a hydrocarbon and 

 an organic chloride in presence of chloride of aluminum, whereby the 

 residues of the two compounds enter into combination to form a more 

 complex, frequently a highly complex body. Independently of its 

 utility, this process of synthesis is of remarkable interest from the 

 part taken in it by the chloride of aluminum, which, though essential 

 to the reaction, is found unaltered at the end, and seems to act by 

 suffering continuously, little by little, a correlative transformation and 



The Statutes relating to the election of Council and Officers were 

 then read, and Mr. Francis Galton and Mr. Sorby having been, with 

 the consent of the Society, nominated Scrutators, the votes of the 

 Fellows present were taken, and the following were declared duly 

 elected as Council and Officers for the ensuing year : — 



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



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



Secretaries. 



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

 \ Professor Thomas Henry Huxley, LL.D. 



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



Other Members of the Council. 



William Henry Barlow, Pres. Inst. C.E. ; Rev. Professor Thomas 

 George Bonney, M.A. ; George Bask, F.L.S. ; Right Hon. Sir Richard 

 Assheton Cross, D.C.L., LL.D. ; Edwin Dunkin, V.P.R.A.S. ; Alex- 

 ander 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, F.L.S. ; Professor Alfred Newton, M.A., Pres. C.P.S. ; Pro- 

 fessor William Odling, M.B., Y.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. 



The thanks of the Society were given to the Scrutators. 



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