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Abstract

THE Anniversary Meeting of the Royal Society was held on Monday last; the list of the new Council we have already given. Owing to the absence of the President from domestic affliction, the chair was occupied by the Secretary, Mr. Spottis-woode. At the dinner in the evening three members of the Government were present—Lords Carnarvon and Salisbury, and Mr. W. Hunt. Lord Carnarvon in his speech gave out “no uncertain sound”as to what he deemed the duty of Government in the matter of endowment of scientific research; he virtually agreed to all the principles which we have so long and so strenuously advocated. We may therefore hope that the money to be devoted to the new Arctic Expedition is only a first instalment of what the Government think is due by the country to the promotion of directly unremunerative research.