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298 On the Foreign List.

Gaudry, Albert. Heim, Albert. Kohlrausch, Friedrich. Langley, Samuel Pierpont. Lippmann, Gabriel. Lie, Sophus. Metschnikoff, Elias. Mittag-Leffler, Gosta. Schiaparelli, Giovanni.

The President then addressed the Society as follows:— Nineteen Fellows and five Foreign Members have been taken from the Royal Society by death since the last Anniversary Meeting.

The deceased Fellows are—

John Russell Hind, December 23, 1895, aged 73. The Right Hon. Hugh Culling Eardley Childers, January 29,1896, aged 69. General James Thomas Walker, February 16, 1896, aged 69. Charles Chambers, March, 1896, aged 61. William Sharp, April 10, 1896, aged 91. Sir John Russell Reynolds, May 29, 1896, aged 68. Sir George Johnson, June 3, 1896, aged 78. Sir Joseph Prestwich, June 23, 1896, aged 84. The Right Hon. Sir William Robert Grove, August 2, 1896, aged 85. Alexander Henry Green, August 19, 1896, aged 64. The Hon. Sir George Frederic Verdon, September 13, 1896, aged 62. Sir John Eric Erichsen, September 23, 1896, aged 78. Sir George Murray Humphry, September 24, 1896, aged 76. Baron Ferdinand von Mueller, October 9, 1896, aged 71. Henry Trimen, October 18, 1896, aged 53. George Harley, October 27, 1896, aged 67. Henry Newell Martin, October 28, 1896, aged 44. Admiral Sir George Henry Richards, November 14, 1896, aged 76. Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson, November 21, 1896, aged 68.

The Foreign Members are-—

Gabriel Auguste Daubree, May 29,*1896, aged 82. August, Kekule, July 13, 1896, aged 66. Hubert Anson Newton, August 12, 1896, aged 66. Hippolyte Louis Fizeau, September 18, 1896, aged 77. Benjamin Apthorp Gould, November 27, 1896, aged 72.

' Although biographical notices of nearly all will be found in the
 * Proceedings,’ there are some to whose labours I may make brief reference to-day.