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THE following fifteen have been selected by the Council of the Royal Society out of the fifty candidates, and recommended to the Fellows for election:- William Henry Besant, M.A., Mathematical Lecturer at St. John's College; Senior Wrangler and First Smith's Prizeman in 1850, Moderator in 1856, Examiner in the University of London from 1860 to 1865; author of Treatises on “Hydromechanics and the Theory of Sound,” 2nd ed. 1867; “Elementary Hydrostatics,” 2nd ed. 1867; “Geometrical Conic Sections,” 1869; “Roulettes and Glissettes,” 1870. William Budd, M.D. (Edin.), physician, author of various medical papers, especially relating to contagious diseases. George W. Callender, F.R.C.S., lecturer on Anatomy at St. Bartholomew's Hospital School, and Assistant Surgeon to Bartholomew's Hospital; author of Anatomical papers. William Carruthers, F. L. S., F. G. S., keeper of the Botanical Department, British Museum; author of “Fossil Cycadean Stems from the Secondary Rocks of Britain;” “On the Structure and Affinities of Sigillaria and Allied Genera;” “The Cryptogamic Forests of the Coal Period;” “On the Structure of the Stems of the Arborescent Lycopodiaceæ of the Coal-measures;” “Revision of the British Graptolites,” &c. Robert Etheridge, F.R.S.E., F.G.S., Palæontologist to H.M. Geological Survey of Great Britain; Demonstrator on Palæontology, Royal School of Mines; author of numerous geological papers. Frederick Guthrie, B.A., F.R.S.E., F.C.S., Professor of Physics in the Royal School of Mines; author of various papers on Chemistry and Physics. Captain John Herschel, R.E., of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India. Captain Alexander Moncrieff, Militia Artillery, C.E., inventor of the Moncrieff gun-carriage, and author of the Moncrieff system of defence. Richard Quain, M.D. (Lond.), Fellow and late Censor of the Royal College of Physicians; author of a paper “On Fatty Degeneration of the Heart,” which has exerted a marked influence on certain branches of Pathological Science; and of numerous communications published in the Transactions of the Pathological Society, of which Society he was President (1869–70). Carl Schorlemmer, Senior Assistant in Owens College Laboratory, Manchester; author of a series of papers on the Constitution of the Paraffins, chiefly published in the Proceedings of the Society since 1862. Edward Thomas, Treas. R.A.S.; author of numerous papers on Indian Coins and Gems. Edward Burnet Tylor, author of “Researches into the Early History of Mankind;” “Primitive Culture;” and various memoirs on Savages and their Customs. Cromwell Fleetwood Varley, Civil and Telegraphic Engineer, M.I.C.E.; Consulting Electrician to the Electric and International Telegraph Company, the Atlantic Telegraph Company, la Société du Cable Transatlantique Français; author of many inventions in connection with the Electric Telegraph. Viscount Walden, President of the Zoological Society of London; author of various papers on Ornithology. John Wood, F.R.C.S., Examiner in Anatomy at the University of London; author of a number of anatomical papers published in the Phil. Trans.
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The Royal Society's List for 1871 . Nature 4, 13 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/004013a0
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