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Anniversary Meeting. 



[Nov. 30, 



Fellows elected since 



Baird, A. W., Major R.E. 



Bowen, Right Hon. Lord Justice 

 Sir Charles Synge C., Kt. 



Carpenter, Philip Herbert, D.Sc. 



Clark, Sir Andrew, Barf., M.D. 



Common, Andrew Ainslie, F.R. A.S. 



Creak, Ettrick William, Staff Com- 

 mander R.N. 



Divers, Prof. Edward. 



the last Anniversary. 



Hicks, Henry, M.D. 



Hicks, William Mitchinson, M.A. 



Japp, Francis R., Ph.D. 



Marshall, Arthur Milnes, M.D . 



Martin, Prof. Henry Newell, D.Sc. 



O'Sullivan, Cornelius. 



Perry, Prof. John. 



Ringer, Prof. Sydney. 



Yines, Sidney Howard, D.Sc. 



Re-admitted. 

 James Bateman. 



On the Foreign List. 

 Cornu, Alfred. Dana, James D wight. 



The President then addressed the Society as follows : — 



At the earliest opportunity after my return to England last spring, 

 I offered my very grateful acknowledgements to the Society for the 

 kindness with which the Fellows had condoned my enforced absence 

 from my post during the winter. And I should not venture to occupy 

 your time by recurring to the subject, did not the return of St. 

 Andrew's day admonish me that duty and inclination alike require me 

 to offer my especial thanks to the Treasurer for the cheerful readiness 

 with which he took upon himself the burden of my duties, and the 

 efficiency with which he discharged them on our last Anniversary. 



On the last occasion on which I had the honour to address you, it 

 was my painful duty to commence by lamenting the death of a very 

 eminent member of the Society, who was, at the same time, one of 

 my oldest and most intimate friends. I deeply regret to find myself 

 once more in this position. The lamentable accident which has 

 deprived the Society of one of its oldest and most distinguished 

 Fellows, Dr. Carpenter, has robbed me of a friend, whose kindly 

 sympathy and help were invaluable to me five-and-thirty years ago, 

 and who has never failed me since. 



You are all acquainted with Dr. Carpenter's great and long continued 

 services to science as an investigator and as an expositor of remarkable 

 literary skill ; and there must be many here who, having worked with 

 him in the University of London, of which he was so long Registrar, 

 are familiar with the high integrity, the energy, and the knowledge, 

 which marked him as an administrator. He was a man of varied 

 accomplishments outside the province of science, single-minded in 

 aim, stainless in life, respected by all with whom he came in contact. 



Within the last few days, Physics has lost an eminent representa- 



