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Iproceebmos at 54tb anniversary fiDeetino of 
Governors ant> Members, 
HELD IN THE HALL OP THE ROYAL MEDICAL AND CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY, 
20 HANOVER SQUARE. 
MONDAY, MAY 29, 1893, 
THE DUKE OF WESTMINSTER, K.G. (PRESIDENT), IN THE CHAIR. 
The fifty-fourth anniversary gene- 
ral meeting of Governors and Mem- 
bers was, in order to comply with 
Clause G of the Charter, held, pro 
forma , at 12, Hanover Square, on 
May 22, 1893 (Whit Monday), Earl 
Cathcart, Trustee, in the chair, but 
was immediately adjourned until the 
following Monday, May 29th, when it 
was held in the hall of the Royal 
Medical and Chirurgical Society, at 
20, Hanover Square, his Grace the 
Duke of Westminster, K.G., Presi- 
dent, in the chair. 
Present 
Trustees. — General Viscount Brid- 
port, G.C.B., Earl Cathcart, Mr. John 
Dent Dent, Colonel Sir Nigel Ivings- 
cote, K.C.B., Right Hon. Sir Matthew 
White Ridley, Bart., M.P. 
Vice-Presidents. — Right Hon. Sir 
Massey Lopes, Bart., Sir John Thor- 
old, Bart. 
Other Members of Council. — Messrs. 
G. Mander Allender, J. Bowen-Jones, 
James A. Caird, F. S. W. Cornwallis, 
M.P., the Earl of Coventry, Messrs. 
Percy E. Crutchley, Joseph Martin, 
Hon. Cecil T. Parker, Duke of Port- 
land, Sir Joseph Spearman, Bart., E. 
W. Stanyforth, Martin J. Sutton, 
John Tremayne, and Sir Jacob 
Wilson. 
Governor. — Sir George Macpherson 
Grant, Bart. 
Members. — Lord Ribblesdale, Sir 
Henry Simpson, Messrs. T. Davies 
Burlton, Arthur Carey, Arthur Coode, 
Thomas Dunn, Henry Field, John 
Gilmour, II, J. Greenwood, Frederick 
King, Claude M. Pilkington, Professor 
William Pritchard, Major - General 
Ravenhill, Messrs. Emil Reiss, R. 
Henry Rew, G. F. Sheppard, J. Her- 
bert Taylor, Sc c. 
Officers. — Mr. Ernest Clarke, Secre- 
tary ; Dr. J. Augustus Voelcker, Con- 
sulting Chemist ; Mr. Cecil Warbur- 
ton, Zoologist. 
The Secretary having read the 
Bye-Laws governing the transaction 
of business at the anniversary meet- 
ings, 
President for 1893-4. 
Lord Ribblesdale moved : “ That 
his Grace the Duke of Devonshire, 
K.G., be elected President of the 
Society for the year ensuing the 
Chester Meeting.” 
Mr. Joseph Martin (Isle of Ely) 
seconded the motion, and said lie 
was sure that the election of his 
Grace as President of the Society 
would be very acceptable to the 
county and town of Cambridge. 
The motion having been carried 
unanimously, 
The President read a letter from 
the Duke of Devonshire, expressing 
his regret that he was unable to get 
back from Ireland in time to attend 
the meeting. 
Re-election of Council. 
The Trustees and Vice-Presidents 
having been re-elected by show of 
hands, the election of twenty-five 
members of Council was proceeded 
with, and the President appointed 
Mr. Arthur Carey, Mr. H. J. Green 
