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THE following is the list of officers and council of the Royal Society nominated for the year ensuing. The election will take place as usual on St. Andrew's Day, November 30:—President — William Spottiswoode, M.A., D.C.L., LL.D.; Treasurer—John Evans, D.C.L., LL.D.; Secretaries—Prof. George Gabriel Stokes, M.A., D.C.L., LL.D.; Prof. Thomas Henry Huxley, LL.D.; Foreign Secretary—Prof. Alexander William Williamson, Ph.D.; other members of the Council—William Henry Barlow, Pres. Inst. C.E.; Rev. Prof. Thomas George Bonney, M.A.; George Busk, F.L.S.; Right Hon. Sir Richard Assheton Cross; Edwin Dunkin, V.P.R.A.S.; Alexander John Ellis, B.A.; Thomas Archer Hirst, Ph.D; William Huggins, D.C.L., LL.D.; Prof. John Marshall, F.R.C.S.; Prof. Daniel Oliver, F.L.S.; Prof. Alfred Newton, M.A., Pres. C.P.S.; Prof. William Odling, M.B., V.P.C.S.; Henry Tibbats Stainton, F.G.S.; Sir James Paget, D.C.L.; William Henry Perkin, Sec. C.S.; Lieut.—General Richard Strachey, R.E., C.S.I.