little of its deep oceans, how little of ne great atmosphere which surrounds us! And even if we knew and understood all and every part of our own habitation, what is that, when we think what a tiny atom that habitation is in the great system of the universe, seen and unseen!

The true man of science, knowing all this, is humble-minded, not arrogant or supercilious; diffident, not presumptuous; forbearing, not intolerant.

If these are the qualities which men of science possess and show, whilst prosecuting their studies and researches, they will secure favour for themselves and for their noble pursuits. They will be accepted and respected as the expounders of the grand and beautiful laws by which God governs the universe—laws, a knowledge and a right application of which will assuredly conduce, alike to the prosperity of nations and to the happiness of the human race.

The following statement in regard to the number of the present Fellows of the Society was laid on the table by the Secretary:—

1. Honorary Fellows

Royal Personage

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales,

British Subjects

John Couch Adams, Esq., Cambridge; Sir George
Biddell Airy, Greenwich; Thomas Andrews, M.D.,
Belfast (Queen's College); Thomas Carlyle, Esq.,
London; Arthur Cayley, Esq., Cambridge; Charles
Darwin, Esq., Down, Broomley, Kent; John An-
thony Froude, Esq., London; James Prescott Joule,
LL.D., Cliffpoint, Higher Broughton, Manchester;
William Lassell, Esq., Liverpool; Rev. Dr Hum-
phrey Lloyd, Dublin; William Hallowes Miller,
LL.D., Cambridge; Richard Owen, Esq., London;
Lieut.-General Edward Sabine, R.A., London;
George Gabriel Stokes, Esq., Cambridge; James
Joseph Sylvester, LL.D., London; William Henry
Fox Talbot, Esq., Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire; Alfred
Tennyson, Esq., Freshwater, Isle of Wight,

1

17

18

Foreign

Brought forward,

Claude Bernard, Paris; Adolphe Théodore Brong-
niart, Paris: Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, Heidelberg;
Michael Eugène Chevreul, Paris; James D. Dana,
LL.D., Newhaven, Connecticut; Heinrich Wilhelm
Dove; Jean Baptiste Dumas, Paris; Charles Dupin,
Paris; Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, Berlin; Elias
Fries, Upsala; Herman Helmholtz, Berlin; August
Kekule, Bonn; Gustav Robert Kirchhoff, Heidel-
berg; Herman Kolbe, Leipzig; Albert Kölliker,
Wurzburg; Ernst Edward Kummer, Berlin;
Johann von Lamont, Munich; Richard Lepsius,
Berlin; Rudolph Leuckart, Leipzig; Urbain.
Jean Joseph Leverrier, Paris; Joseph Lionville,
Paris; Henry Milne-Edwards, Paris; Theodore
Mommsen, Berlin; John Lothrop Motley, United
States; Louis Pasteur, Paris; Professor Benjamin
Peirce, United States Survey; Adolphe Pictet,
Geneva; Henry Victor Regnault, Paris; Angelo
Secchi, Rome; Karl Theodor von Siebold,
Munich; Bernard Studer, Berne; Otto Torell, Lund;
Rudolph Virchow, Berlin; Wilhelm Eduard Weber,
Gottingen; Friedrich Wohler, Gottingen,

Total Honorary Fellows at March 1875,

The following Foreign Honorary Fellows were elected in
March 1875-

Dove, Kekule, Kolbe, Kummer, Lionville, Motley.

The following are the Honorary Fellows deceased during
the year-

Foreign-M. Comte de Remusat,

British-Sir Charles Lyell, Bart., Sir W. E. Logan,
Sir Charles Wheatstone, .

3

35

53

49

2. Non-resident Fellow under the Old Laws

Sir Richard Griffiths,

1

Total Honorary and Non-resident Fellows, 6th Dec. 1875,

50

3. Ordinary Fellows

Ordinary Fellows at November 1874,
New Fellows, 1874-75.-John Aitken, Esq.; The Hon.
James Bain; Dr Ludwick Bernstein; James Bryce,
LL.D.; John Christie, Esq.; Robert Clark, Esq.; Dr T.
S. Clouston; Dr William Craig; Daniel G. E. Eliot,
Esq.; Thomas Fairley, Esq.; Robert Gray, Esq.; Sir
John Hawkshaw; William Jack, Esq.; Archibald Kirk-
wood, LL.D.; John Ramsay L'Amy, Esq.; C. H. Millar,
Esq.; John Milroy, Esq.; E. W. Prevost, Esq.; Ralph
Richardson, Esq.; Michael Scott, Esq.; James Syme,
Esq.; James Thomson, LL.D.; Charles Wilson Vincent,
Esq.; Professor Daniel Wilson,

B. Baden Powell, formerly elected, but not admitted
till 1874; Dr Alexander Wood (re-admitted),
Total New Fellows,

24

2

Deduct Deceased.-Rev. Dr Aitken; John Auld, Esq.; Dr
J. Hughes Bennet; Rev. Dr Crawford; Col. Seton
Guthrie; Sir William Jardine, Bart.; Professor Macdonald;
Hon. Lord Mackenzie; E. Meldrum, Esq.; Ven. Arch-
deacon Sinclair,

Resigned.-Rev. Thomas M. Lindsay; John L.
Douglas Stewart, Esq.,

.

10

2

Cancelled.-Charles Lawson, Esq.,

1

13

Total number of Ordinary Fellows at November 1874,
Add Honorary and Non-Resident Fellows,

358

50

Total Ordinary and Honorary Fellows at commencement
of Session 1875 (6th December),

408

The following Communication was read:

The Volcanic Eruptions of Iceland in 1874 and 1875. By Captain Burton. (With two Maps of Iceland).

Shortly after reading "Volcanic Eruptions in Iceland" (the "Scotsman," May 21), and "An Appeal for Iceland" (the "Times" July 1), I made a trip to Arctis, partly with a view of inspecting and inquiring into the last outbreaks. Perhaps your energetic Society may not be unwilling to have an unprejudiced account of what was seen and heard.