1878.] 



Number of Fellows. 



69 



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, F.GLS., F.S.A. 



Secretaries — { Professor Geor g e Gabriel Stokes, M.A., D.C.L., LL.D. 

 " t Professor Thomas Henry Huxley, LL.D. 



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



Other Members of the Council. — Frederick A. Abel, C.B., V.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.I., 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 thanks of the Society were given to the Scrutators. 



The following Table shows the progress and present state of the 

 Society with respect to the number of Fellows : — 





Patron 

 and 



Koynl. 



Foreign. 



Com- 

 pounders. 



£4 

 yearly. 



Total. 



November 30, 1877. 



4 



43 



252 



253 



552 



Elected 





4- 7 



+ 4 



+ 13 



+ 24 



Deceased 





- 6 



— 5 



- 16 



- 27 



Since compounded 







+ 2 



- 2 





November 30, 1878. 



4 



44 



253 



248 



549 



