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works of Art in the gravel beds of the Somme. He was the 
Author of several important works illustrating the Archseology 
and ancient literature of his native Province, Brittany, all of 
which he kindly presented to the Library of this Institution, 
along with a collection of flint implements found in the drift. 
A name of the highest renown will disappear this year from 
the Kst of Honorary Members, Henry Lord Brougham, who 
was elected an Hon. Member of this Society in 1860, died at 
Cannes last year at the advanced age of 89. 
The Council cannot close this part of the Eeport without 
drawing attention to the great loss the Society has experienced 
in the death of Eobert Denison, Esq., one of the Yice-Presidents 
of the Society. Mr. Denison was one of the first to enrol his 
name on the list of the Society’s members, and from that period 
to almost the close of his life always manifested a lively and 
active interest in the welfare of this Institution. 
The Council have to inform the Members that Mr. Dallas, 
the late keeper of the Museum, resigned his office at the close 
of the year on being elected Assistant Secretary to the Greolo- 
gical Society. On his leaving York the Council granted to 
Mr. Dallas £100, being half a year’s salary, in consideration 
of his services to the Society which extended over a period of 
ten years. 
The Council propose for election as Honorary Member, 
Mr. Norman Lockyer, Fellow and Member of Council of the 
Eoyal Astronomical Society. By his application of the 
Spectroscope to the observation of the sun’s disc, Mr. Lockyer’s 
name is associated with one of the most important discoveries 
in Solar Physics. It will suffice to state that he was one 
of the first observers to obtain evidence of the existence of 
the flame-colored prominences on the sun’s unobscured disc; 
phenomena which had hitherto been observed only during the 
time of a total eclipse of the sun. These prominences 
Mr. Lockyer identified, by the aid of Spectrum Analysis, as 
immense volumes of hydrogen gas, surrounding the sun’s 
photosphere in a state of intense combustion. 
The Council propose the Hon. Payan Dawnay, W. C. 
Anderson, Esq., John Ford, Esq., and J. M. Gibson, Esq., M.D., 
