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enabled the IManagers to invest £600 in the purchase of stock, 

 besides the usual annual additions to the Accumulating Funds of 

 the Institution ; and the property of the Royal Institution, including 

 the house and furniture, the library, &c., and the sums invested in 

 the public funds, now amounts to about Fifty Thousand Pounds. 

 The presence of His Royal Highness Prince Albert on several 

 occasions, and of the Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred at the 

 whole of the juvenile course oi 1855-56, was adverted to. 



A List of Books Presented (amounting in number to 300 vol- 

 umes,) accompanies the Report, making a total, with those purchased 

 by the Managers and Patrons, of 743 volumes (including Periodi- 

 cals) added to the Library in the year. 



Thanks were voted to the President, Treasurer, and Secretary, 

 to the Committees of Managers and Visitors, and to Professor 

 Faraday, for their services to the Institution during the past year. 



The following Gentlemen were unanimously elected as Officers 

 for the ensuing year : — 



President — The Duke of Northumberland, K.G. F.R.S. 

 Treasurer— William Pole, Esq. M.A. F.R.S. 

 Secretary — Rev. John Barlow, M.A. F.R.S. 



Managers. 



William H. Blaauw, Esq. M.A. F.S.A. 

 Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, Bart. 



D.C.L. V.P.R.S. 

 Thomas Davidson, Esq. 

 Warren De la Rue, Esq. Ph.D. F.E.S. 

 George Dodd, Esq. F.S.A. 

 Sir Charles Fellows. 

 W. R. Grove, Esq. M.A. Q.C. F.R.S. 

 Lieut.-Col. F. Vernon Harcourt, M.P. 



Henry Bence Jones, M.D. F R.S. 



George Macilwain, Esq. 



Sir Roderick I. Murchisow, G.C.S- 



D.C.L. F.R.S. 

 Frederick Pollock, Esq. M.A. 

 Joseph William Thrupp, Esq. 

 Sir James Shaw Willes, Justice of the 



Common Pleas. 

 Col. Philip James Yorke, F.R.S. 



Visitors. 



Francis Bayley, Esq. 



John Charles Burgoyne, Esq. 



John Robert F. Burnett, Esq. 



Hugh W. Diamond, M.D. F.S.A. 



Gordon W. J. Gyll, Esq. 



Thomas Henry, Esq. 



John Hicks, Esq. 



John Holdship, Esq. M.A. 



R. Reginald I. Morley, Esq. 

 Thomas N. R Morson, Esq. 

 The Viscount Ranelagh. 

 Joseph Skey, M.D. 

 Rev. William Taylor, F.R.S. 

 Hensleigh Wedgwood, Esq. M.A. 

 Thomas Young, Esq. 



The President nominated the following Vice-Presidents fi)r the 

 ensuing year : — 



W. R. Grove, Esq. 

 H. Bence Jones, M.D. 



W. Pole, Esq , Treasurer. 

 Rev. J. Barlow, Secretary 

 Sir B. C. Brotiic. 

 Sir Charles Fellows. 



Sir R. I. Murchison. 



Vol. II. 



