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and the mother country ; which, while it brought new treasures 

 to Europe, tended to civilize and to improve the condition of 

 the inhabitants of some of the most important islands of the 

 East. Neither misfortune nor pecuniary losses damped the 

 ardour of his mind in the pursuit of knowledge. Having lost 

 one splendid collection by fire, he instantly commenced the 

 formation of another; and having brought this to Europe, he 

 made it not private, but public property, and placed it entirely 

 at the disposition of a new Association for the promotion ot 

 Zoology, of which he had been chosen President by acclamation. 

 Many of the Fellows of this Society can bear testimony to his 

 enlightened understanding, acute judgment, and accurate and 

 multifarious information ; and all of them must, I am sure, regret 

 the premature loss of a man who had done so much, and from 

 whom so much more was to be expected, and who was so truly 

 estimable in all the relations of life." 



The Society afterwards proceeded to the election of the coun- 

 cil and officers for 1827, when on examination, the following 

 was found to be the state of the lists. Eleven members of the 

 old council to remain members of the new council : — 



Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. ; John Barrow, Esq. ; The Lord 

 Bishop of Carlisle ; Davies Gilbert, Esq. M.P. ; John F. W. 

 Herschel, Esq. M . A. ; Sir Everard Home, Bart. ; Captain Henry 

 Kater; John Pond, Esq. A.R. ; James South, Esq.; W. Hyde 

 Wollaston, M.D. ; T. Young, M.D. 



The members elected into the council : — 



John Abernethy, Esq. ; Charles Babbage, Esq. M.A. ; Captain 

 Francis Beaufort, R.N. ; Robert Brown, Esq. ; John George 

 Children, Esq. ; Charles Hatchett, Esq. ; A. B. Lambert, Esq. ; 

 William Viscount Lowther; George Pearson, M.D. ; William 

 Prout, M.D, 



The following were elected ofiicers of the Society : 



President^ Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. ; Treasurer .^ Davies 

 Gilbert, Esq. M.P. ; Secretaries^ J. F. W. Herschel, Esq. M.A ; 

 John G. Children, Esq. 



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