1886.] 



President's Address. 



Fellows elected since 



Bidwell, Shelford, M.A. 



Colenso, William, F.L.S. 



Dixon, Harold B., F.C.S. 



Festing, Edward Robert, Major- 

 General, R.E. 



Forsyth, Andrew Russell, M.A. 



Green, Professor A. H., M.A. 



Horsley, Prof. Victor, F.R.C.S. 



Meldola, Raphael, F.R A.S. 



Pye-Smith, Philip H., M.D. 



Rosebery, Right Hon. Archibald 

 Philip Primrose, Earl of. 



the last Anniversary. 



Russell, Henry Chamberlaine, 

 B.A. 



Sedgwick, Adam, M.A. 

 Thurlow, Right Hon. Thomas 



John Hovell - Thurlow Cum- 



ming-Bruce, Lord. 

 Unwin, Professor W. Cawthorne, 



B.Sc. 



Warington, Robert, F.C.S. 

 Wharton, William James Lloyd, 



Captain R.TsT. 

 Wilde, Henry. 



On the Foreign List. 



Baeyer, Adolf. 

 Klein, Felix.. 



Kowalewski, A. 

 Loven, Sven. 



The President then addressed the Society as follows: — 



For many years it has been my duty as senior Secretary to read at 

 each Anniversary the death-roll of the year. The names this year 

 are perhaps slightly fewer than usual, but many recall to us faces 

 once familiar that we shall never see here again. Earliest among 

 them comes Sir Frederick Evans, whose death took place only very 

 shortly after our last Anniversary. In the course of the preceding 

 summer he crossed the Atlantic to take part in that International 

 Conference which assembled at Washington, to deliberate among 

 other things on the choice of a common prime meridian for all 

 civilised nations. On his return he was looking ill, and the illness 

 increased until it carried him away. Yet even through his illness he 

 kept on working at science, at a task he had undertaken, and which 

 was almost completed when he died. To this I shall have occasion 

 to refer again. In Mr. Busk we have lost one whose detailed know- 

 ledge of certain branches of natural history and comparative anatomy 

 was almost unrivalled. He took an active part in the scientific 

 business of the Society, and repeatedly served on our Council, and 

 both then and subsequently gave us the benefit of his extensive 

 knowledge and sound judgment in the important but laborious 

 task of reporting on papers. In Lord Cardwell we have lost a 

 statesman whose political duties did not prevent him from coming 

 among us and serving on our Council. The public services and 

 singular honesty and straightforwardness of Mr. Forster are appre- 

 ciated by the nation at large. Quite recently, at no advanced age, 



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