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which latter it appears that the Society is in the Treasurer's debt to the 

 small amount of £4 19$. 2d. 



H. Lloyd, Chairman. 

 February 11, 1857. 



The ballot being closed, the following gentlemen were declared duly 

 elected upon the Council for the ensuing year : — 



President — Lord Talbot de Malahide. 



Vice-Presidents — Eobert Mallet, C.E., M.E.I.A. ; Edward Wright, 

 LL.D., M.E.I.A. ; James Apjohn, M.D., M.E.I.A. ; Professor Harvey, 

 M.D., M.E.I.A. ; Eev. Humphrey Lloyd, D.D., S.E.T.C.D. 



Treasurers — Gilbert Sanders, Esq., M.E.I.A. ; F. J. Sidney, LL.D., 

 M.E.I.A. 



Secretaries — Eev. Professor Haughton, E.T.C.D. ; Joseph Beete 

 Jukes, Esq., M.E.I.A. 



Council — Eobert Ball, LL. D. ; John Macdonnell, M.D. ; Eobert 

 CallweU, Esq.; Richard Griffith, LL.D.; Eev. J. A. Galbraith, E.T.C.D.; 

 John Kelly, Esq.; George M'Dowell, E.T.C.D. ; Samuel Downing, C.E.; 

 Eev. George Longfield, E.T.C.D. ; Samuel Gordon, MD.; John B. Doyle, 

 Esq. ; Dominick M'Causland, Esq. ; John E. Kinahan, M.B. ; G. Y. Du 

 Noyer, Esq.; Alexander H. Haliday, Esq., M.E.I.A. 



At the adjourned Evening Meeting the following Address from the 

 President, Lord Talbot de Malahide, was read : — 



Gentlemen, — In reviewing the state of our Society during the past 

 year, although it is satisfactory to find no retrogresion, I should have 

 wished to be able to congratulate you on a larger accession of new mem- 

 bers. Upon the whole, we have one member less than last year, though, 

 as the loss is principally in Honorary, Corresponding, and Associate 

 Members, we have in reality a gain of nine Ordinary Members. I trust 

 that at the meeting of the British Association in this city steps may be 

 taken to enable us to enlarge the sphere of our operations. 



Among the losses we have sustained, that of our Assistant Secretary, 

 Mr. Eichard Hitchcock, is much to be deplored. You all know how 

 much we are indebted to his attention to the affairs of our Society, to 

 his punctuality and zeal in carrying out its objects. He was possessed 

 of a very refined mind, and had acquired a very considerable proficiency 

 in various branches of literature, particularly Archaeology, with which 

 our science is so nearly allied ; and, doubtless, if he had been spared, we 

 might have anticipated receiving many valuable contributions from his 

 pen. 



We have also to deplore the loss, by death, of one of our Honorary 

 Corresponding Members, John S. Kennedy, Esq., C.E., who died in India, 

 when on his way to Singapore to recruit his failing health. This gentle- 

 man was a gold medallist of the University of Dublin, was subsequently 

 attached to the Irish Geological Survey, and afterwards to that of India, 

 which post, unfortunately, he did not live to enjoy for a length of time 



