Proceedings and List of Papers read. 



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November 25, 1897. 

 The LORD LISTER, F.R.C.S., D.C.L., President, in the Chair. 



A List of the Presents received was laid on the table, and thanks 

 ordered for them. 



In pursuance of the Statutes, notice of the ensuing Anniversary 

 Meeting; was o-iven from the Chair, and the list of Officers and Council 

 nominated for election was read as follows : — 



President— Lord Lister, F.R.C.S., D.C.L. 



Treasurer. — Sir John Evans, K.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D. 



oecreiurtes. ^ Professor Arthur William Riicker, M.A., D.Sc. 

 Foreign Secretary. — Sir Edward Frankland, K.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D. 



Other Members of the Council. — Professor William Grylls Adams, 

 M.A.; Professor Thomas Clifford Allbutt, M.D. ; Sir Robert 

 Stawell Ball, M.A. ; Rev. Thomas George Boriney, D.Sc ; Professor 

 John Cleland, M.D. ; Professor Robert Bellamy Clifton, M.A. ; Pro- 

 fessor James Alfred Ewing, M.A. ; Alfred Bray Kempe, M.A. ; John 

 Newport Langley, D.Sc. ; Joseph Larmor, D.Sc. ; Professor Nevil 

 Story Maskelyne, M.A. ; Professor Raphael Meldola, F.C.S. ; Pro- 

 fessor Edward B;ignall Poulton, M.A. ; William James Russell, 

 Ph.D.; Diikinfield Henry Scott, M.A.; Professor Walter Frank 

 Raphael Weldon, M.A. 



Professor J. H. van't Hoff, Professor Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers, 

 Professor Wilhelm Pfeffer, and Professor Ferdinand Zirkel were 

 balloted for and elected Foreign Members of the Society. 



The following Papers were read : — 



I. "On the Geometrical Treatment of the ' Normal Curve' of 

 Statistics, with especial Reference to Correlation and to the 

 Theory of Error." By W. F. Sheppakd, M.A., LL.M., 

 formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Communi- 

 cated by Professor A. R. Forsyth, F.R.S. 

 vol. lxii. o 



Professor Michael Foster, M.A., M.D., D.C.L., LL.D. 



