We are happy to observe that the attempt to defeat
the election of Sir Henry Haworth by the Fellows of the Royal Society, has failed, and that Professor Ray Lankester and Mr. Romanes are not likely to succeed in turning the Royal Society into a pen of scientific Professors. Sir Henry Howorth was elected on Thursday by a majority of four to one, and it would be a very unfortunate omen for the future of the Royal Society had there not been this result to the dead-set made against him. Doubtless, his chief reputation is for eminence in science not of the strictest kind,—in ethnology, geology, and all the groups which are of the most service in historical investigation. it will not do to narrow the Royal Society too much. It should not be a mere association of investigators in science of the narrower kind.
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