Proceedings and List of Papers read. 



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June 3, 1897. 



The Annual Meeting for the Election of Fellows was held this day. 



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



The Statutes relating to the election of Fellows having been read, 

 Dr. Gladstone and Mr. McLachlan were, with the consent of the 

 Society, nominated Scrutators to assist the Secretaries in the examina- 

 tion of the balloting lists. 



The votes of the Fellows present were collected, and the following 

 Candidates were declared duly elected into the Society : — 



Bell, Robert, LL.D. 

 Broad bent, Sir William Henry, 

 Bart. 



Chree, Charles, M'.A. 

 Elwes, Henry John, F.L.S. 

 Haldane, John Scott, M.D. 

 Haswell, Professor William A., 

 D.Sc. 



Howes, Professor George Bond, 

 F.L.S. 



Kipping, F. Stanley, D.Sc. 

 Mathews, Professor George Bal- 

 lard, M.A. 



Murray, George Robert Milne, 

 F.L.S. 



Neville, Francis Henry, M.A. 

 Nicholson, Professor H. Alleyne, 

 M.D. 



Thomson, Professor John Millar, 

 F.C.S. 



Trouton, Professor Frederick 



Thomas, M.A. 

 Turner, Professor Herbert Hall, 



M.A. 



Thanks were given to the Scrutators. 



June 3, 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. 



The following Papers were read : — 



I. " The Sensitiveness of the Retina to Light and Colour." By 

 Captain W. de W. Abney, C.B., D.C.L., F.R.S. 



II. "On the Mechanism by which the First Sound of the Heart is 

 produced." By Sir Richard Quaix, Bart., M.D., F.R.S. 



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