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The Royal Society. —The following are the Officers for the present 
year:—President, Sir George Gabriel Stokes, M.A., D.C.L., LL.D.; 
Treasurer, John Evans, D.C.L., LL.D.; Secretaries, Professor 
Michael Foster, M.A., M.D., Lord Rayleigh, M.A., D.C.L.; Foreign 
Secretary, Archibald Geikie, LL.D. ; other members of the Council, 
Professor Henry Edward Armstrong, Ph.D., Professor William 
Edward Ayrton, Charles Baron Clarke, M.A., Professor W. Boyd 
Dawkius, M.A., Edward Emanuel Klein, M.D., Professor E. Ray 
Lankester, M.A., Hugo Muller, Ph.D., Professor Alfred Newton, M.A., 
Captain Andrew Noble, C.B., the Rev. Stephen Joseph Perry, D.Sc., 
Sir Henry E. Roscoe, D.C.L., Edward John Routh, D.Sc., William 
Scovell Savory, Professor Joseph John Thomson, M.A., Professor 
Alexander William Williamson, LL.D,, and Sir Charles William 
Wilson, Col.R.E. 
Geological Society. —Mr. W. J. Harrison, F.G.S., for many years 
co-editor of this magazine, has just received intimation from the 
secretai-y of the Geological Society that the Council have awarded him 
the proceeds of the “ Barlow-Jameson Fund,” in recognition of his 
“valuable contributions to geological science;” and he is invited to 
attend the anniversary meeting of the Society on the 21st of February, 
to receive the award. The Geological Society have paid a great and 
well-deserved compliment to Mr. Harrison in selecting him for this 
honour, and we offer him our heartiest congratulations. It may be 
interesting to note that the former recipients of the “Barlow-Jameson 
Fund ” were—in 1882, Dr. James Croll; 1884, Baron von Ettings- 
hausen ; 1886, Professor Leo Lesquereux ; and in 1888, Dr. Johnston- 
Lavis. The income of the fund is “ to be applied every two or three 
years, as may be approved by the Council, to or for the advancement 
of Geological Science.” 
Reports of Societies. 
BIRMINGHAM NATURAL HISTORY AND MICROSCOPICAL 
SOCIETY. —Sociological Section. November 14th. Mr. W. R. 
Hughes, F.L.S., President of the Section, in the chair. Mr. F. 
J. Cullis delivered his exposition of the first three chapters 
of Mr. Herbert Spencer’s “Principles of Sociology,” and to 
Mr. Spencer’s division of Evolution into three kinds, viz., 
inorganic, organic, and super-organic, contended for a further 
division into cosmic and psychic.—November 26th. Mr. W. R. Hughes, 
F.L.S., in the chair. Dr. Showed Rogers delivered an able and 
interesting paper on “Robert Burton, author of the ‘Anatomy of 
Melancholy,’” to an appreciative audience.—November 28th. Mr. 
W. R. Hughes, F.L.S., in the chair. Mr. A. Browett continued the 
exposition of Mr. Herbert Spencer’s “ Principles of Sociology,” taking 
the IV., V., and VI. Chapters on “ Original Internal Factors ” and 
“ The Primitive Man—Physical and Emotional,” and deduced from 
the known characteristics of modern savages the probable physical 
and emotional traits of primitive man.—December 19th. Mr. W. R. 
Hughes, F.L.S., in the chair. Mr. Kineton Parkes read a paper on 
Chapter VII. of Mr. Herbert Spencer's “ Principles of Sociology,” 
