Address of the President, Sir Ernest Rutherford, at the anniversary meeting, November 30, 1926

At this anniversary meeting, it is customary to refer to the losses by death suffered by our Society during the year. These include sixteen of our Fellows and one Foreign Member. The Society has to lament the untimely removal of some of our most distinguished workers in the field of general Biology and Pathology. On January 2 died John Gray McKendrick, Emeritus Professor in the University of Glasgow, in his eighty-fifth year. A veteran Physiologist, he collaborated with the late Sir James Dewar in the discovery of the excitation by light of an electric current in the retina and optic nerve, and made distinguished contributions to the physiology of the special senses. He was a man of wide interest, distinguished also as a lecturer and writer.