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Rh Capt. William Allen, R.N. Edw. Hodges Baily, Esq., R.A. John Joseph Bennett, Esq. James Scott Bowerbank, Esq. Rob. Edwards Broughton, Esq. Thomas Chapman, Esq. Rev. Henry Christmas, M.A. Ardaseer Cursetgee, Esq. William Fishburn Donkin, Esq. Geo. Hunsley Fielding, M.D.

John Jesse, Esq.

Cuthbert William Johnson, Esq.

The Earl of Lovelace.

Major Gen. V/m.Morison, C.B.

Lieut. Tho. J. Newbold, EJ.CS.

Samuel Peace Pratt, Esq.

Lieut. Chas. Jas. B. Riddeli, R.A.

Capt. Owen Stanley, R.N.

Thomas Glanville Taylor, Esq.

Joseph Toynbee, Esq.

On the Foreign List.

His Majesty the King of Prussia. Henry Frederic Link. Dr. G. S. Ohm. Jean Victor Poncelet. Henry Rose.

The President then addressed the meeting as follows : Gentlemen,

I MUST commence my address to you by the expression of my re- gret that my absence from England at this period of the last year prevented my being then able to meet you at your Anniversary. The gratitude which it has behoved me to intimate to my Council on former occasions for their assistance in the discharge of my pre- sidential duties, it is more than ever necessary for m.e now to feel, as it was that assistance that rendered my absence no real detriment to the Society.

During that absence, an event took place to which I am bound to refer, — I allude to the visit to this city of the sovereign of another country at the time of the auspicious baptism of His Royal High- ness the Prince of Wales. His Prussian Majesty was pleased to join our Society. At this I heartily rejoice, as I believe it to be a happy omen for mankind when those v/ho are placed in exalted situations show their sympathy with scientific pursuits. I congra- tulate the Prussian nation, that her sovereign has taken so early an opportunity of countenancing science, and of declaring his opinion that the natural philosopher is a friend to good government, to order, and to civilization.