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Rh William Hiitton, Esq. John Gwyn JefFerys, Esq. Thomas Wharton Jones, Esq. Edward Kater, Esq. Henry Lawson, Esq. Lord Lyttleton.

John Grant Malcolmson, M.D. John Narrien, Esq. The Bishop of Norwich.

John Parkinson, Esq. Joseph Phillimore, LL.D. Rev. Charles Pritchard, M.A. The Duke of Richmond. John Rogers, Jun., Esq. George Leith Roupell, M.D. William Sharp, Esq. John Pye Smith, D.D. James Whatman, Jun., Esq.

Jean Baptiste Dumas. Justus Liebig.

On the Foreign List.

Johannes Miiller. Jacques Charles Francois Sturm.

The President then addressed the Meeting as follows : Gentlemen,

In addressing you at the termination of this, the second year that I have had the honour of presiding over your Society, my first duty is to return my thanks to those gentlemen whom you have nominated to be my Council. They have rendered an onerous duty comparatively light and easy by their unremitting attendance and zeal ; and have, as I trust, prevented your affairs from suffering from any incompetency on my part. In making my report of the trans- actions of the last year, I know of nothing to regret, except the loss of some of our valued Associates, who between the end of last No- vember and the present time have paid the debt of nature.

Among the new members enrolled in our body, it will perhaps be right to mention the name of the Bishop of Norwich, as being President of the Linnean Society, one of the oldest branches that may be considered as thrown off from our parent stem. Also that of the Duke of Richmond, as President of the two newest Asso- ciations founded for the promotion of science, the Royal Agricul- tural and Botanical Societies. W^e have one new member of still higher rank, who has honoured us by becoming one of our Fellows, H. R. H. Prince Albert, the consort of our beloved Queen and Patroness. As your organ, Gentlemen, I will venture to say that you duly appreciate the honour conferred on yourselves ; at the same time while His Royal Highness gratifies us by joining our body, we entertain no doubt that he does so from the just conviction that the patronage and advancement of science are national objects of the deepest importance.

The Antarctic Expedition, to whose departure I adverted in my last year’s Address is, I trust, now successfully pursuing its career of scientific research. Already a portion of the fruits of its labours has reached us, and promises an abundant and valuable harvest. The fixed Magnetic Observatories on the territories of Her Majesty are now also in full operation ; while foreign powers have given us