1890. DR. LOUIS GUILLAUME, Bern. Doctor of Medicine; Director of the Federal Statistical Bureau; United States. 1573. THE HON. WILLIAM BARNES, Thurlow-terrace, Albany, N.Y. Lawyer; Ex-Superintendent of the Insurance Department, State of New York. 1881. DR. JOHN SHAW BILLINGS, Astor Library, New York City. A.M., M.D., LL.D., Edinburgh and Harvard; D.C L., Oxon; Surgeon, U.S. Army; Member of the National Academy of Sciences, &c. 1896. WORTHINGTON CHAUNCEY FORD, Metropolitan Club, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, Treasury Department; Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, Department of State; Member of the International Statistical Institute. 1890. DR. RICHMOND MAYO-SMITH, M.A., Ph.D., Columbia College, New York. Professor of Political Economy and Social Science in Columbia College; Vice-President of the American Statistical Association; Member of the International Statistical Institute, and of the National Academy of Sciences. 1870. THE HON. JOHN ELIOT SANFORD, Taunton, Mass. Lawyer; Ex-Speaker of the House of Representatives; ExInsurance Commissioner; Ex-Chairman of the Board of Harbour and Land Commissioners; Chairman of the Board of Railroad Commissioners. 1876. DR. FRANCIS AMASA WALKER, Ph.D., LL.D., Boston, Mass. Formerly Superintendent of the United States Census; President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Member of the International Statistical Institute and "Président Adjoint" for the Meeting of 1893; Correspondent of the Institute of France; President of the American Statistical Association; Ex-President of the American Economic Association; VicePresident of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington; Corresponding Member of the Central Statistical Commission of Belgium. 1870. THE HON. DAVID AMES WELLS, D.C.L., LL.D., M.D., Norwich, Conn. Economist; Late Special Commissioner of Revenue of the United States; Chairman of Commission for the Revision of Taxes of the State of New York; Lecturer on the Principles and Practice of Taxation, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States; Member of the Board of Arbitration of American Railways; President, National Board of Visitors of the U.S. Military Academy of West Point; President of the American Social Science Association, and of the American Free Trade League; Chairman in 1883 of the Department of Finance of the American Social Science Association; Corresponding Member of the Institute of France, to fill vacancy occasioned by the death of John Stuart Mill; Corresponding Member of the Academy "dei Lincei," Rome; Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston; Honorary Member of the Cobden Club; Gold Medallist "Exposition Universelle, France, 1889, Groupe de l'Economie Sociale." 1893. THE HON. CARROLL DAVIDSON WRIGHT, Washington. Commissioner of the U.S. Department of Labour; late Chief of the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labour; President of the Association for the promotion of Profit Sharing; late President and now Vice-President of the American Social Science Association; Vice-President of the American Statistical Association; Member of the American and British Economic Associations, of the International Statistical Institute, and of several other learned Societies. India. 1886. JAMES EDWARD O'CONOR, C.I.E., Calcutta and Simla. Director-General of Statistics; Assistant Secretary with the Supreme Government, India, Department of Finance and Commerce. Dominion of Canada. 1894. GEORGE JOHNSON, Ottawa. Statistician, Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, Canada. 1877. DR. EDWARD YOUNG, A.M., Ph.D., Windsor, Nova Scotia. Consul of the United States; formerly Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, United States of America: Member of the Geographical Society of Paris. New South Wales. 1893. TIMOTHY AUGUSTINE COGHLAN, Sydney. Government Statistician of New South Wales and Registrar of Friendly Societies and Trade Unions; formerly Assistant Engineer for Harbours and Rivers. 1876. EDWARD GRANT WARD, J.P., Sydney. Late Registrar-General; Chairman of Board of Land Titles Commissioners. New Zealand. 1876. SIR JAMES HECTOR, K.C.M.G., M.D., F.R.S.S. L. and E., F.G.S. &c., Wellington. Director of the Geological Survey, of the Meteorological Department, and of the New Zealand Institute, &c. 1894. ROBERT MACKENZIE JOHNSTON, Hobart. Registrar-General and Government Statistician; Fellow and 1876. EDWIN CRADOCK NOWELL, J.P., Hobart. Clerk of Executive and Legislative Councils of Tasmania; late Government Statistician; Clerk to the Federal Council of Australasia in its four Sessions. Victoria. 1858. WILLIAM HENRY ARCHER, K.C.P., K.S.G., F.I.A., F.L.S., &c., Grace Park, Hawthorne, Melbourne, Barrister-at-Law. Great Britain and Ireland. 1876. THE PRESIDENT (for the time being) OF THE MANCHESTER STATISTICAL SOCIETY, 63, Brown Street, Manchester. 1876. THE PRESIDENT (for the time being) OF THE STATISTICAL AND SOCIAL INQUIRY SOCIETY OF IRELAND, 35, Molesworth Street, Dublin. NOTE.-The Executive Committee request that any inaccuracies in the foregoing List of HONORARY FELLOWs may be pointed out, and that all changes of address may be notified to the Secretary, so that delay in forwarding communications and the publications of the Society may be avoided. ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY. Copy of Charter. Victoria, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith. To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting:Whereas Our Right trusty and entirely beloved cousin, Henry, Third Marquess of Lansdowne, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Charles Babbage, Fellow of the Royal Society, John Elliott Drinkwater, Master of Arts, Henry Hallam, Fellow of the Royal Society, the Reverend Richard Jones, Master of Arts, and others of Our loving subjects, did, in the year One thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, establish a Society to collect, arrange, digest and publish facts, illustrating the condition and prospects of society in its material, social, and moral relations; these facts being for the most part arranged in tabular forms and in accordance with the principles of the numerical method, and the same Society is now called or known by the name of "The "Statistical Society." And Whereas it has been represented to Us that the same Society has, since its establishment, sedulously pursued such its proposed objects, and by its publications (including those of its transactions), and by promoting the discussion of legislative and other public measures from the statistical point of view, has greatly contributed to the progress of statistical and economical science. And Whereas distinguished individuals in foreign countries, as well as many eminent British subjects, have availed themselves of the facilities offered by the same Society for communicating important information largely extending statistical knowledge; and the general interest now felt in Statistics has been greatly promoted and fostered by this Society. And Whereas the same Society has, in aid of its objects, collected a large and valuable library of scientific works and charts, to which fresh accessions are constantly made; and the said Society has hitherto been supported by annual and other subscriptions and contributions to its funds, and has lately acquired leasehold premises in which the business of the said Society is carried on. And Whereas in order to secure the property of the said Society, to extend its operations, and to give it its due position among the Scientific Institutions of Our kingdom, We have been besought to grant to Sir Rawson William Rawson, Knight Com. mander of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, and Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, and to those who now are Members of the said Society, or who shall from time to time be elected Fellows of the Royal Statistical Society hereby incorporated, Our Royal Charter of Incorporation for the purposes aforesaid. 1. Now Know He that We, being desirous of encouraging a design so laudable and salutary, of Our especial grace, certain knowledge and mere motion, have willed, granted, and declared and Do by these Presents, for Us, Our heirs and successors, will, grant, and declare that the said Sir Rawson William Rawson, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, and Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, and such other of Our loving subjects as now are Members of the said Society, or shall from time to time be elected Fellows of "The Royal Statistical Society" hereby incorporated according to such regulations or bye laws as shall be hereafter framed or enacted, and their successors, shall for ever hereafter be by virtue of these presents one body politic and corporate, by the name of "The Royal Statistical Society," and for the purposes aforesaid, and by the name aforesaid, shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, with full power and authority to alter, vary, break, and renew the same at their discretion, and by the same name to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, answer and be answered, unto and in every Court of Us, Our heirs and successors. 2. The Royal Statistical Society, in this Charter hereinafter called "The Society," may, notwithstanding the statutes of mortmain, take, purchase, hold and enjoy to them and their successors a hall, or house, and any such messuages or hereditaments of any tenure as may be necessary, for carrying out the of purposes the Society, but so that the yearly value thereof to be computed at the rack rent which might be gotten for the same at the time of the purchase or other acquisition, and including the site of the said hall, or house, do not exceed in the whole the sum of Two thousand pounds. 3. There shall be a Council of the Society, and the said Council and General Meetings of the Fellows to be held in accordance with this Our Charter shall, subject to the provisions of this Our Charter, have the entire management and direction of the concerns of the Society. 4. There shall be a President, Vice-Presidents, a Treasurer or Treasurers, and a Secretary or Secretaries of the Society. The Council shall consist of the President, Vice-Presidents, and not |