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November 27, 1873. 



W. SPOTTISWOODE, M.A., Treasurer and Vice-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 pro- 

 posed for election was read as follows : — 



President.— Joseph Dalton Hooker, C.B., M.D., D.C.L., LL.D. 

 Treasurer. — William Spottiswoode, M.A., LL.D. 



Secretaries - { Pro£ * GeoT % e GahAel Stokes ' M ' A " D ' C - L " LL - D ' 

 " 1 Prof. Thomas Henry Huxley, LL.D., Ph.D. 



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



Other Members of the Council. — Sir George Biddell Airy, K.C.B., M.A. ; 

 Sir B. C. Brodie, Bart, M.A., D.C.L. ; Prof. Arthur Cayley, LL.D. ; 

 John Evans, Sec. G-.S., F.S.A. ; Daniel Hanbury, Treas. L.S. ; Nevil 

 Story Maskelyne, M.A. ; Prof. James Clerk Maxwell, M.A. ; C. Wat- 

 kins Merrifield, Hon. Sec. I.N. A. ; Joseph Prestwich, V.P.G-.S.; Andrew 

 Crombie Bamsay, LL.D. ; Bear- Admiral G-. H. Bichards, C.B. ; Prof. 

 George Bolleston, M.D., M.A. ; Prof. J. S. Burdon Sanderson, M.D. ; 

 William Sharpey, M.D., LL.D.; Brands Sibson, M.D.; Major-Gen. 

 E. Strachey, E.E., C.S.L 



Dr. Aitken, Dr. Paget, and Lord Bayleigh were admitted into the 

 Society. 



Pursuant to notice given at the last Meeting, Baron Jean Baptiste 

 Julien D'Omahus d'Halloy of Brussels, Georg Adolph Erman of Berlin, 

 Asa Gray of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Franz Ghistav Jakob Henle 

 of Gottingen, Charles Hermite of Paris, and Otto Struve of Pulkowa, 

 were balloted for and elected Foreign Members of the Society. 



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

 them. 



The following communications were read : — 



I. " On the Optical Properties of a new Chromic Oxalate." By 

 Walter Noel Hartley, F.C.S., Demonstrator of Chemistry, 

 King's College, London. Communicated by Dr. Gladstone, 

 F.B.S. Received June 19, 1873. 



With the view of making a series of spectroscopic observations on 

 coloured salts, I have lately prepared many salts of chromium, and have 

 been successful in obtaining some interesting new substances, one of which 

 is remarkable alike in its chemical constitution, its fine crystalline cha- 



