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at least, be allowed to call himself an attached member of the body, 

 under the sense, very deeply felt by him, of his own personal and 

 official deficiencies. 



" Whoever may be the member elected by your suffrages, this 

 evening, to occupy that important and honourable post which I am 

 now about to resign, it will, of course, become my duty to give to 

 that future President my faithful and cordial support, by any means 

 within the compass of my humble power. But if it be true, as I 

 collect it to be, that your unanimous choice will fall upon the very 

 member whom, out of all others, I should have myself selected, if it 

 could have been mine to make the selection — with whom I have 

 been long connected by the closest ties of College friendship, 

 strengthened by the earnest sympathy which we have felt in our 

 aspirations for the welfare of this Academy, which has already bene- 

 fited by his exertions in many and important ways — then will that 

 course, which would have been in any event my duty, be in an 

 eminent degree my pleasure also. 



" And now, my Lords and Gentlemen, understanding that an old 

 and respected member is prepared to propose for your votes, as my 

 successor, the friend to whom I have ventured to allude — very in- 

 adequately, as regards my opinion of his merits, yet, perhaps, more 

 pointedly than his modesty will entirely forgive or approve of, — I 

 shall detain you no longer from that stage of the proceedings of the 

 evening which must be the most interesting to all of us, but shall 

 conclude these words of farewell from this Chair, by expressing a 

 hope that my future exertions, though in a less conspicuous position, 

 shall manifest, at least in some degree, that grateful and affectionate 

 sense which I muet ever retain of the constant confidence and favour 

 which you have, at all times, shown towards me." 



After which it was Resolved, — That the thanks of the Academy be 

 given to Sir William R. Hamilton, and that the Academy desire to 

 express their entire sense of the value of his services as President, 

 of his high and impartial bearing in the Chair, and of his untiring 

 efforts to advance the interests of the body; and they also wish to 

 record their satisfaction that he has determined to remain in the 

 Council of the Academy. 



The following officers were then elected : — The Rev. Prof. Lloyd, 

 President, in the place of Sir William Hamilton ; Dr. Todd, Secre- 

 tary ; the Rev. Charles Graves, Secretary of Council ; and the Rev. 

 Mr. Butcher, Secretary of Foreign Correspondence ; in the rooms 

 respectively of Dr. MacCullagh, and Sir Robert Kane, resigned, and 

 of the Rev. Dr. Lloyd, who was elected President. 



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ANALYSIS OF A CALCAREOUS ROCK ON WHICH FUCI AND VA- 

 RECHS VEGETATE, BY M. LASSAIGNE. 



T11HE rocks on which these substances grow on a part of the 

 JL western shore of France, are covered daily with the water of the 



