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June 6, 1872. 



The Annual Meeting for the election of Fellows was held this day. 



Mr. WILLIAM SPOTTISWOODE, M.A,, Treasurer and Vice- 

 President, in the Chair. 



The Statutes relating to the election of Fellows having been read, Sir 

 James Alderson and Prof. A. W. Williamson were, with the consent of the 

 Society, nominated Scrutators to assist the Secretaries in examining the 

 lists. 



The votes of the Fellows present having been collected, the following 

 Candidates were declared to be duly elected into the Society : — 



Prof. William Grylls Adams, M.A. 

 Andrew Leith Adams, M.B. 

 Frederick Le Gros Clark, F.R.C.S. 

 Prof. John Cleland, M.D. 

 Prof. Michael Foster, M.D. 

 Prof. Wilson Fox, M.D. 

 Arthur Gamgee, M.D. 

 Rev. Thomas Hincks, B.A. 



Prof. William Stanley Jevons, M.A. 

 Prof. George Johnson, M.D. 

 Prof. Thomas Rupert Jones. 

 MajorThomas George Montgomerie, 

 R.E. 



Edward Latham Ormerod, M.D. 

 Edward John Routh, M.A. 

 William James Russell, Ph.D. 



Thanks were voted to the Scrutators. 



June 13, 1872. 



Sir JOHN LUBBOCK, Bart., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. F. Le Gros Clark, Dr. Wilson Fox, Dr. George Johnson, Dr. E. 

 Latham Ormerod, Mr. E. J. Routh, Dr. W. J. Russell, and Colonel Tennant 

 were admitted into the Society. 



The following communications were read : — 



I. " On the Spectrum of the Great Nebula in Orion, and on the 

 Motions of some Stars towards or from the Earth.'' By 

 William Huggins, LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.S. Received May 2, 

 1872. 



In my early observations of the spectrum presented by the gaseous 

 nebulce, the spectroscope with which I determined the coincidence of two 

 of the bright lines respectively with a line of nitrogen and a line of hy- 

 drogen was of insufficient dispersive power to show whether the brightest 



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