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WE have received the following announcement from the Royal Society:—On the last day of the present month the Fellows of the Royal Society will hold their anniversary meeting, and elect Covncil and officers for the ensuing year. The following list has been nominated:—President: Prof. Thomas Henry Huxley, LL.D.; Treasurer: John Evans, D.C.L., I.L.D.; Secretaries: Prof. George Gabriel Stokes, M.A., D.C.L., LL.D., Prof. Michael Foster, M. A., M.D.; Foreign Secretary: Prof. Alexander William Williamson, LL.D.; other Members of the Council: Capt. W. de Wiveleslie Abney, R.E., Prof. W. Gryll; Adams, M.A., F.C.P.S., the Duke of Argyll, K.T., D.C.L., John Gilbert Baker, F.L.S., Thomas Lauder Brunton, M.D., Sc.D., William Henry M. Christie, Astronomer-Royal, William De la Rue, M.A., D.C.L., Sir Frederick J. O. Evans, K.C.B., Prof. Georgd Carey Foster, B.A., Francis Gallon, M.A., F.G.S., James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, M.A., Sir William Withey Gull, Bart., M.D., Hugo Müller, Ph.D., Prof. Joseph Prestwidi, M.A., F.G.S., Prof Osborne Reynolds, M.A., Osbert Salvin, M.A., F.L. S. It will be a subject of congratulation to the scientific worli at large to learn from the above announcement that Prof. Huxley has consented to allow himself to be nominated for President.