PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE ROYAL SOCIETY. 



November 21, 1878. 



Sir JOSEPH HOOKER, K.C.S.I., 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 

 proposed for election was read as follows : — • 



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



Treasurer. — John Evans, F.G.S., F.S.A. 



Secretaries <f ^ >ro ^ essor Greorge Gabriel Stokes, M. A. ,D.C.L., LL.D. 



L Professor Thomas Henry Huxley, LL.D. 



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



Other Members of the Council. — Frederick A. Abel, C.B., Y.P.C.S. ; 

 William Bowman, F.R.C.S.; William Carruthers, V.P.L.S. ; Major- 

 General Henry Clerk, R.A.; William Crookes, Y.P.C.S.; Sir William 

 Robert Grove, M.A. ; Augustus G. Vernon Harcourt, F.C.S. ; Sir 

 Joseph Dalton Hooker, C.B., K.C.S.L, D.C.L. ; Admiral Sir Astley 

 Cooper Key, K.C.B. ; Lieut.- General Sir Henry Lefroy, C.B. ; 

 Lord Lindsay, P.R.A.S. ; Sir John Lubbock, Bart., V.P.L.S. ; 

 Lord Rayleigh, M.A. ; Charles William Siemens, D.C.L. ; John 

 Simon, C.B., D.C.L. ; Professor Allen Thomson, M.D., F.R.S.E. 



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

 them. 



The Rev. Thomas George Bonney, Dr. John Hughlings Jackson, 

 and Mr. Edward Alfred Schafer were admitted into the Society. 



General Boileau, General Clerk, Mr. J. Evans, Dr. Gladstone, and 

 Mr. Simon having been nominated by the President, were elected by 

 ballot Auditors of the Treasurer's Accounts on the part of the Society. 



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