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288 for he possessed great knowledge of the habits, economic and medicinal properties and uses of plants, drew up many valuable reports on the agricultural products and forests of India, and was very extensively read in the literature of the science. He was further an elegant scholar, a classical writer, and an accomplished European and Oriental linguist. His loss has been deeply felt by botanists of all classes, for he was always contributing information and materials to those engaged in the study of the most abstruse as well as the most popular branches of the science. It may truly be said that no one ever applied to him in vain, nor has a book of any importance been published on botany in Europe within the last thirty years, in which Dr. Wallich's name is not prominently introduced.

Dr. Wallich was a Doctor of Medicine and of Philosophy, Fellow of the Royal Danish Society of Copenhagen, a Correspondent of the Academies of Sciences of Paris and Berlin, and a member of most of the learned bodies of Europe. He was a Vice-President of the Linnean Society of London, and a Knight-Commander of the Danish Order of Dannebrog. He was elected a Fellow of this Society in March 1829, and nominated a Vice-President in 1852.

On the motion of the Rev. Baden Powell, seconded by Dr. Warren, the best thanks of the Society were given to the President for his excellent Address, and his Lordship was requested to permit the same to be printed.

The Statutes relating to the election of Officers and Council having been read, and Dr. Roget and Thomas Webster, Esq. having, with the consent of the Society, been nominated Scrutators, the votes of the Fellows present were collected.

The following Noblemen and Gentlemen were reported duly elected Officers and Council for the ensuing year:—

President—The Lord Wrottesley, M.A.

Treasurer—Colonel Edward Sabine, R.A.

Secretaries—William Sharpey, M.D.&emsp;George Gabriel Stokes, Esq., M.A.

Foreign Secretary—Rear- Admiral W. H. Smyth.

Other Members of the Council.—Neil Arnott, M.D.; Rear-Admiral 