Sir Michael Foster, K. C. B. , F. R. S. - A Secretary of the Royal Society

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Among other reasons for including some account of Sir Michael Foster’s life and achievements in these Notes and Records , we naturally recall his special services to the Royal Society, as one of its Secretaries for the unusually long period of 22 years, from 1881 to 1903. A glance at the Society’s Record will show, indeed, that he was the last to hold that Office, before the present convention of a ten years’ limit to its tenure came to be adopted. And it may further be noted, in the same connexion, that the only Secretaryship as long as Sir Michael Foster’s, in the whole history of the Society, was that of Sir George Stokes, whose period of service overlapped with his, and was even substantially longer. Sir George’s Secretaryship lasted indeed for 31 years, from 1854 onwards; and it might even be thought that it required his election as President, in 1885, to bring it to a natural end.

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