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Anniversary Meeting. 



[Nov. 30, 



On the Foreign List. 

 Carl Friedrich Philip von Martins. | Johannes Evangelista Purkinje. 



The Bishop of London 

 Lord Stanley 



Lord Justice Sir W. Page Wood 



Change of Title. 



to Archbishop of Canterbury, 

 to Earl of Derby, 

 to Lord Hatherley. 



Fellows elected since 



Sir Samuel White Baker, M.A. 

 John J. Bigsby, M.D. 

 Charles Chambers, Esq. 

 William Esson, Esq., M.A. 

 Prof. George Carey Foster, B.A. 

 Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoigne- 



Cecil, Marquis of Salisbury, M.A. 

 William W. Gull, M.D. 

 Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord 



Houghton, M.A.,D.C.L. 

 J. Norman Lockver, Esq. 



the last Anniversary. 



John Robinson M 'Clean, Esq. 



St. George Mivart, Esq. 



John Russell Reynolds, M.D. 



Vice- Admiral Sir Robert Spencer Ro- 

 binson, K.C.B. 



Major James Francis Tennant, R.E, 



Prof. Wyville Thomson, LL.D. 



Col. Henry Edward LandorThuillier, 

 R.A. 



Edward "Walker, Esq., M.A. 



Alphonse De Candolle. 

 Charles Eugene Delaunay. 



Sir John Macneill 



On the Foreign List. 



Louis Pasteur. 



Readmitted. 



Edward Solly, Esq. 



The President then addressed the Society as follows : — 

 Gentlemen, 



One of the first subjects to which I have to draw your attention is the 

 Royal Society's Catalogue of Scientific Papers, the printing of which, I am 

 happy to report, proceeds satisfactorily. The third volume, which I lay 

 before you, is now completed, carrying the Index of Titles in alphabetical 

 order as far as L e z inclusive ; and good progress has been made in cor- 

 recting the proofs of the fourth volume. Each succeeding volume of the 

 work, of course, adds to its practical utility, which continues to be thank- 

 fully acknowledged by cultivators of science in various parts of the world. 



But while the aid to be derived to scientific research from the index 

 arranged according to authors' names is fully recognized, there can be no 

 doubt that the value of the Catologue will be greatly enhanced by the ful- 

 filment of the second part of the plan announced in the preface, namely, 

 by the publication of an Alphabetical Index of Subjects. The prepara- 

 tion of such an "Index Iterum" as is contemplated has been for some 

 time a subject of anxious as well as careful consideration by the Library 



