216 ANNIVERSARY. [May 23, 1859. 



changes advised by the Council had been adopted ; Sir Roderick I. 

 Murchison, the President, retiring at the expiration of his second 

 year of office, to be succeeded by the Earl of Ripon ; the vacancy 

 among the Vice-Presidents, occasioned by the retirement of Rear- 

 Admiral Sir George Back, to be supplied by Sir Roderick I. Mur- 

 chison ; and those among the Ordinary Councillors, caused by the 

 retirement of Lord Broughton, Lord Dufferin, Lieut.-General C. R. 

 Fox, Colonel J. H. Lefroy, R.A., the Bishop of Oxford, Sir Henry 

 Rawlinson, and Colonel T. M. Steele, to be filled by Sir Benjamin 

 Brodie, Bart., the Hon. F, H. G. Calthorpe, m.p., Captain the Hon. 

 J. Denman, r.n., Laurence Oliphant, Esq., Major-General J. E. 

 Portlock, R.E., and J. A. Warre, Esq., m.p. 



Thanks having been voted to the President, Vice-Presidents, 

 Members of the Council, Auditors, and Scrutineers, the President 

 finally directed attention to the usual Anniversary Dinner, and the 

 Meeting adjourned. 



