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June 6, 1878. 



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



Sir JOSEPH HOOKER, K.C.S.I., President, in the Chair. 



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

 Major- General H. Clerk and Dr. G. Johnson 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 duly elected into the Society. 



John Hughlings Jackson, M.D. 

 Lord Lindsay, P.R.A.S. 

 Samuel Roberts, M.A. 

 Edward Albert Schafer, M.R.C.S. 

 Hermann Sprengel, Ph.D. 

 George James Symons. 

 Charles Sissmore Tomes, M.A. 



John Gilbert Baker, F.L.S. 

 Francis Maitland Balfour, M.A. 

 Rev. Thomas George Bonney, M.A. 

 Prof, James Henry Cotterill, M.A. 

 Sir Walter Elliot, K.C.S.I. 

 Rev. Canon W. Greenwell, M.A. 

 Thomas Hawksley, C.E. 

 John Hopkinson, M.A. D.Sc. 



Thanks were given to the Scrutators. 



June 20, 1878. 



Sir JOSEPH HOOKER, K.C.S.I., President, in the Chair. 



In pursuance of the Statutes, notice of the ensuing Anniversary 

 Meeting was given from the Chair. 



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

 them. 



The Right Hon. William Henry Smith, Mr. John Gilbert Baker, 

 Mr. Francis Maitland Balfour, Prof. James Henry Cotterill, Sir Walter 

 Elliot, Rev. Canon W. Greenwell, Mr. Thomas Hawksley, Dr. John 

 Hopkinson, Mr. Samuel Roberts, Mr. George James Symons, and 

 Mr. Charles Sissmore Tomes, were admitted into the Society. 



The following Papers were read : — 



I. "Notes on Physical Geology. No. V. Mr. George H. Dar- 

 win's Comments on Note No. III." By the Rev. Samuel 

 Haughton, M.D. Dnbl., D.C.L. Oxon, F.R.S., Professor of 

 Geology in the University of Dublin. Received May 20, 

 1878. 



In the "Proceedings of the Royal Society," 14th March, 1878, p. 179, 

 Mr. George H. Darwin has published a criticism on my jDroposecl 

 method of finding a limit to the duration of certain geological periods, 

 published in the " Proceedings of the Royal Society," 20th December, 

 1877, p. 534, 



