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Visitors. 



Neill Arnott, M.D. F.R.S. 

 Hon. and Rev. Samuel Best. 

 George J. Bosanquet, Esq. 

 Archibald Boyd, Esq. 

 Bernard Edward Brodhurst, Esq. 

 John Charles Burgoyne, Esq. 

 George Frederick Chambers, Esq. 

 Hon. Sir Charles Crompton, Justice 

 Queen's Bench. 



of 



Edward Enfield, Esq. 

 Captain Frederick Gaussen. 

 The Duke of Manchester. 

 John MacDonnell, Esq. 

 Colonel William Pinney, M.P. 

 George Stodart, Esq. 

 Hon. Sir James P. Wilde, Baron of the 

 Exchequer. 



His Grace the President nominated the following Vice-Presidents 

 for the ensuing year : — 



William Pole, F.R.S. Esq. the Treasurer. 

 The Rev. John Barlow, M.A. F.R.S. 

 Sir B. C. Brodie, Bart. D.C.L. F.R.S 



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



Sir H. Holland, Bt. M.D. D.C.L. F.R.S. 



Major-Gen. Edward Sabine, Pres. R.S, 



WEEKLY EVENING MEETING, 



Friday, May 2, 1862. 



The Rev. John Barlow, M.A. F.R.S. Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



R. MoNCKTON Milnes, Esq. M.P. 

 On the International Exhibition of 1862. 



The speaker stated that the Managers of the Institution had arranged 

 that some discourses should be there delivered, on the most important 

 natural products to be exhibited at the Great International Festival, 

 and had thought it advisable that these special addresses should be pre- 

 faced by a few considerations of the nature and scope of this wonderful 

 congregation of the industries and intelligences of the world. He was 

 much flattered at being selected to perform this duty, and could assure 

 the members present that he should come into no competition with the 

 eminent persons that would follow him, but should confine himself to 

 those generalities and common-places, which are not always the more 

 displeasing for being in some sort the reflection of their own minds. 



It was the habit of this Society to deal rather with facts than specu- 

 lations, and he would therefore direct their attention to the geographical 



