108 



Anniversary Meeting. 



[Nov. 30, 



Arthur Cayley, January 26, 1895, aged 73. 



Sir James Cockle, January 27, 1895, aged 76. 



Rev. Thomas Penyngton Kirkman, February 3, 1895, aged 88. 



John Whitaker Hulke, February 19, 1895, aged 64. 



Henry Austin Bruce, Lord Aberdare, February 25, 1895, aged 80. 



Sir William Scovell Savory, March 4, 1895, aged 69. 



Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, March 5, 1895, aged 84. 



Albert William Beetham, March 11, 1895, aged 95. 



James Dwight Dana, April 15, 1895, aged 82. 



Carl Ludwig, April 24, 1895, aged 78." 



Houndell Palmer, Earl of Sel borne, May 4, 1895, aged 83. 



Henry John Carter, May 4, 1895, aged 82. 



Sir George Buchanan, May 5, 1895, aged 64. 



Franz Ernst Neumann, May 23, 1895, aged 97. 



Talentine Ball, June 15, 1895, aged 52. 



William Crawford Williamson, June 23, 1895, aged 78. 



Hight Hon. Thomas Henry Huxley, June 29, 1895, aged 70. 



Henri Ernest Baillon, July 19, 1895, aged 67. 



Charles Cardale Babington, July 22, 1895, aged 86. 



Sir John Tomes, July 29, 1895, aged 80. 



John Syer Bristowe, August 20, 1895, aged 68. 



Sven Ludwig Loven, September 3, 1895, aged 86. 



Louis Pasteur, September 28, 1895, aged 73. 



George Edward Dobson, November 26, 1895, aged 47. 



Biographical notices will be found in the ' Proceedings.' 



In Cayley we have lost one of the makers of mathematics, a poet 

 in the true sense of the word who made real for the world the ideas 

 which his ever fertile imagination created for himself. He was the 

 Senior Wrangler of my freshman's year at Cambridge, and I well 

 remember to this day the admiration and awe with which, before the 

 end of my first term just fifty-four years ago, I had learned to regard 

 his mathematical powers. When a little later I attained to the 

 honour of knowing him personally, the awe was evaporated by the 

 sunshine of his genial kindness ; the admiration has remained un- 

 abated to this day and his friendship has been one of the valued 

 possessions of my life. While we mourn his departure from among 

 us, we know with gratitude that he has left an imperishable monument 

 of his life's work in the grand edition of his mathematical writings 

 which the University Press of Cambridge gives to the world. The 

 interesting and genuinely appreciative obituary notice of Arthur 

 Cayley, contributed by our colleague, Professor Forsyth, to the 

 ' Proceedings of the Royal Society ' for the present year, has been 

 reprinted as a preface to the eighth volume of his ' Collected Mathe- 

 matical Papers,' which was published last August, rather more than 



