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your country, and secured the gratitude of a body of men who are 

 not tardy in acknowledging benefits." 



The Society then proceeded to the election of a Council and 

 Officers for the year ensuing, when the following members of the 

 Old Council were re-elected. 



Sir H. Davy, Bart. 



Francis Baily, Esq. 



William Thomas Brande, Esq. 



Samuel Goodenough, Lord Bishop of Carlisle 



Davies Gilbert, Esq. 



J.* F. W. Herschel, Esq. 



Sir E. Home, Bart. 



Capt. H. Kater 



John Pond, Esq. 



W. H. Wollaston, M. D. 



Thomas Young, M. D. 



The following members of the Society were chosen into the 

 Council. 



John Barrow, Esq. 



John Bostock, M. D. 



Sir Astley Cooper, Bart. 



B. Gompertz, Esq. 



S. Groombridge, Esq. 



Sir A. Hume, Bart. 



Daniel Moore, Esq. 



Richard, Earl of Mount Edgecumbe 



P. M. Roget, M. D. 



James South, Esq. 



Officers for the ensuing year. 



President Sir H. Davy, Bart. 



Treasurer Davies Gilbert, Esq. 



. i W. T. Brande, Esq. 

 Secretaries ■{ TT . _ 



J. F. W. Herschel, Esq. 



