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November 30, 1889. 

 Anniversary Meeting. 



Pag-e 



Report of Auditors 448 



List of Fellows deceased since last Anniversary 448 



elected 449 



Address of the President , 449 



Election of Council and Officers , 459 



Financial Statement 460-463 



Trust Funds 464-468 



Table showing Progress and present State of Society with regard to 

 Fellows 469 



Account of the appropriation of the sum of £4,000 (the Government 

 Grant) annually voted by Parliament to the Royal Society, to be 

 employed in aiding the Advancement of Science 469 



Account of Grants from the Donation Fund.... 473 



Report of the Kew Committee 474 



No. 285. 



On the Telocity of Transmission through Sea-water of Disturbances of 

 large Amplitude caused by Explosions. By Richard Threlfall, M.A., 

 Professor of Physics, University of Sydney, and John Frederick Adair, 

 M.A., Demonstrator of Physics in the University of Sydney (Plates 3-4) 496 



The Ferment-action of Bacteria. By T. Lauder Brunton, M.D., F.R.S., 

 and A. Macfadyen, M.D., B.Sc 542 



Obituary Notices : — 



Rev. Thomas Gaskin. i 



Dr. Arthur Farre iii 



Gustav Robert Kirchhoff vi 



Dr. Balfour Stewart , ix 



Dr. Owen Rees , xi 



Sir Charles James Fox Bunbury, Bart xiii 



Asa Gray xv 



Sir William O'Shaughnessy Brooke xviii 



Walter Weldon xix 



Sir Julius von Haast xxiv 



Dr. C. J. B. Williams xxvi 



Robert Stirling Newall xxxiii 



Dr. John Percy xxxv 



Admiral Sir Robert Spencer Robinson, K.C.B xl 



Charles S pence Bate xli 



John Frederic La Trobe Bateman xlii 



Index xlix • 



