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in 1874. From 1847 to 1902 he contributed the “ Remarks on 
the Weather” in the Registrar-General’s ‘Quarterly Return of 
Marriages, Births, and Deaths,’ for which he organized a staff of 
observers whose instruments he tested, and he was for many 
years the recognized authority on the verification of meteorological 
instruments. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 
1849 ; in 1850 he founded the British (now Royal) Meteorological 
Society, of which he was Secretary for 20 years; he was the first 
President of the Royal Microscopical Society, President of the 
Photographic Society for 22 years, Chairman of the British 
Association Committee on the Observation of Luminous Meteors 
for 20 years, member of the Council of the Aeronautical Society 
from 1866 until his death, and Chairman of the Palestine 
Exploration Fund from 1880. His numerous contributions to 
Meteorology are of the greatest value. He was one of the first 
Honorary Members of our Society, having been elected in 1875. 
He died on 7th February, 1903, in his 94th year. 
The Most Hon. Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoigne-Cecil, KG., 
M.A., D.C.L., F.R.S., 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, was a member 
of the Society for 25 years, having been elected in 1879. Although 
chiefly known as one of our most distinguished statesmen, he 
devoted much of his leisure time to scientific pursuits, carrying on 
experiments in chemistry and electricity in his well-equipped 
laboratory at Hatfield. He was twice a Vice-President of the 
Royal Societj r (1882-83 and 1893-94), Chancellor of the University 
of Oxford, and President of the British Association at the Oxford 
Meeting in 1894. He died on 22nd August, in his 74th year. 
The Rev. John Wardale, late Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, 
and for 22 years Rector of Datchworth, was elected in 1892. 
Resigning his reetorate in 1898, he left Datchworth for Cambridge, 
where he died on the ‘28th of November, in his 80th year. 
Sir Charles Nicholson, Bart., M.D., D.C.L., LL.D., was 
a member of the Society for 20 years. Born in 1808, he 
commenced his career as a physician, taking his M.D. degree in 
1833, and commencing to practice in Sydney in 1834. In 1843 he 
was returned to the first Australian Parliament, of which he was 
Speaker three times ; he was the first President of the Queensland 
Legislative Council, and first Chancellor of the University of 
Sydney, which he was largely instrumental in founding. On 
retiring from public life he took up his residence at Totteridge, 
where he died on the 8th of November, in his 95th year. 
Mr. T. Vaughan Roberts was elected a member of the Society 
in 1887. He was an observant naturalist, his special study being 
the Mammalia, on which he contributed two papers to our 
‘Transactions,’ as well as several short notes or contributions to 
the discussions at our meetings. He served on the Council from 
1893 to 1896. 
The Council feels that the Society has been singularly unfortunate 
in the loss during the past year of such valued members who have 
been associated with the Society during so many years. 
