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Fellows elected since 



Aitchison, James Edward T., 



Surgeon-Major, M.D. 

 Browne, James Crichton, M.D., 



LL.D. 



Chamberlain, Right Hon. Joseph. 



Dobson, George Edw., Surgeon- 

 Major, M.A., M.B. 



Duncan, James Matthews, A.M., 

 M.D. 



Fitzgerald, Prof. George Francis, 

 MA. 



[Nov. 30, 



the last Anniversary. 



Flight, Walter, D.Sc. 

 Frost, Rev. Percival, M.A. 

 Gill, David, LL.D. 

 Groves, Charles Edward, F.C.S. 

 Grubb, Howard, F.R.A.S. 

 Langley, John Newport, M.A. 

 Reinold, Arnold William, M.A. 

 Trimen, Roland, F.L.S., F.Z.S. 

 Venn, John, M ; A. 

 Walker, John James, M.A. 



Anniversary Meeting. 



The President then addressed the Society as follows : — 

 Gentlemen, 



It will be as much in consonance with your feelings as it is with 

 my own, that the first sentences of this address should give utterance 

 "to our sense of the calamity which befell us during the recess. 



On the 27th of June, our honoured and loved President, William 

 Spottiswoode, fell a victim to that cruel malady, typhoid fever, which 

 is at once the scourge and the reproach of modern civilisation ; and 

 we were bereaved of a chief of whom all those who had the highest 

 interests of this Society at heart, hoped that he would continue, for 

 many a year, to discharge the responsible and laborious duties of his 

 office with that broad intelligence, that faithful diligence, that inex- 

 haustible patience and courtesy, which were so characteristic of the 

 man. 



Every one of the Fellows of the Society, in whose hearing I speak, 

 knows that these are no words of conventional eulogy, as of a cus- 

 tomary epitaph. But, it is only those of us who worked with our late 

 President in the Council, or as officers of the Society, who are in a 

 position fully to appreciate his singular capacity for the transaction 

 of business with clear judgment and rapid decision ; and yet with 

 the most conscientious consideration of the views of those with whom 

 he was associated. 



And, I may add, that it is only those who enjoyed Mr. Spottis- 

 woode's intimate friendship, as it was my privilege to do for some 

 quarter of a century, who can know how much was lost, when there 

 vanished from among us that rare personality, so commingled of 

 delicate sensitiveness with marvellous self-control, of rigid principle 

 with genial tolerance, of energetic practical activity with untiring 

 benevolence, that it always seemed to me the embodiment of that 

 exquisite ideal of a true gentleman which Geoffry Chaucer drew five 

 hundred years ago : — 



