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4. The President exhibited Diagrams in illustration of the 
Capillary Surfaces of Devolution. 
The following Gentlemen were duly elected Fellows of 
Society : — 
Charles Wilson Vincent, Esq., London. 
Ralph Richardson, Esq. 
John Ramsay L’Amy, Esq. 
E. W. Prevost, PLl.D. 
James Syme, Esq. 
Sir John Hawkshaw, F.R.S. 
The following Gentlemen were duly elected Foreign 
Honorary Fellows : — 
Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, Berlin. 
August Kekule, Bonn. 
Herman Kolbe, Leipzig. 
Ernst Eduard Kummer, Berlin. 
Joseph Liouville, Paris. 
John Lothrop Motley, U.S. 
Monday, 1 5th March 1875. 
DAVID MILNE HOME, Esq., LL.D, Vice-President, 
in the Chair. 
The Council having awarded the Makdougall Brisbane 
Prize for the Biennial Period, 1872-74, to Professor Lister, 
for his paper “ On the Germ Theory of Putrefaction and 
other Fermentative Changes,” Dr Crum Brown, in request- 
ing the Chairman to present the medal, addressed the Chair- 
man as follows : — 
Mr Chairman, — I have been requested by the Council, and I feel 
it a very great honour that I have been so requested, on the occa- 
sion of the presentation of the Makdougall Brisbane prize to Pro- 
fessor Lister, to state shortly the grounds upon which the Council 
have made the award. 
Every Fellow of the Society who had the privilege of hearing 
Professor Lister’s paper read, must have a vivid recollection of the 
interesting and admirably clear manner in which he explained 
an intricate series of experiments; of his hereditary ingenuity 
