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Anniversary Meeting. 



[Nov. 30, 



Fellows elected since the last Anniversary. 

 H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh, K.G. 



Godman, Frederic Ducane, F.L.S., 

 F.G.S., M.E.S. 



Harcourt, Right Hon. Sir William 

 George Granville Venables 

 Vernon, Knt., M.A. 



Hutchinson, Jonathan, F.R.C.S. 



Liversidge, Archibald, F.G.S., 

 F.C.S., F.L.S. 



Malet, John, C, M.A. 



Mundella, Right Hon. Anthony- 

 John, F.R.G.S. 



Mven, William Davidson, M.A. 



Palgrave, Robert Henry Inglis. 

 F.S.S. 



Weldon, Walter, F.C.S., F.R.S.E. 



Ball, Valentine, MA. (Dubl.). 

 Brady, George Stewardson, M.D., 

 F.L.S. 



Bramwell, Right Hon. George 



William Wilshere, Lord. 

 Buchanan, George, M.D., F.R.C.P. 

 Clarke, Charles Baron, M.A., 



F.L.S., F.G.S. 

 Darwin, Francis, M.A., M.B., 



F.L.S., F.Z.S., F.R.M.C.S. 

 Dittmar, William, F.C.S., F.R.S.E. 

 Fawcett, Right Hon. Henry, M.A. 

 Gaskell, Walter Holbrook, M.A., 



M.D. 



Glazebrook, Richard Tetley, M.A. 



The President then addressed the Society as follows : — 



Our anniversary is in one sense the opening of a new year, in 

 another it is the close of an old one. With one hand we welcome 

 the coming, with the other we bid farewell to the departing guest. 

 In the later parts of my present address I shall have to speak, 

 as on former occasions, of our prospects and hopes for the future. 

 At our more festive gathering in the evening we shall recount 

 some of the victories which have been won over difficulties in the 

 extension of knowledge, and shall rejoice at the gathering of old 

 comrades and friends after our usual period of dispersion. But at 

 the moment of taking my place in the chair to which you have now 

 for the fourth time elected me, I must confess that the sadder side of 

 the picture is the most prominent. We seem almost for the moment to 

 enter the Valley of the Shadow of Death, or, like Dante, to descend 

 to the place of Departed Spirits, and to commune with them once 

 more after they have vanished from the upper world. Each year 

 during my own term of office the numbers lost to us have been greater 

 than the numbers gained ; but this year, although the list of deaths 

 is long and comprises not a few distinguished Fellows, they all seem 

 overshadowed by two prominent figures. One of these died in the 

 fulness of years, of honours, and of world-wide reputation ; the other 

 in the strength and buoyancy of youth, a buoyancy which appears to 

 have even contributed to his end. 



Of Darwin and his works it is not for me to speak. Others, with 

 wider knowledge, after longer intercourse, and with greater authority, 

 have said what was possible at the moment, and the full story of 



