Abstract
At our Annual Meeting, our thoughts naturally turn to the losses by death to our Society. These include fourteen Fellows, among them some of our most distinguished figures, and one Fellow elected under Statute XII, Lord Rosebery, prominent in the political and social life of this country. In James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, the Society has lost one of its senior Fellows. Elected in 1875, at the early age of 27, for his contributions to pure mathematics, his interest in this subject was soon equalled, and afterwards eclipsed, by his interest in astronomy. He was an active member of the Royal Astronomical Society for almost 60 years, having served continuously for the last 54 years on its Council, and having twice been President.
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