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LXXVII. Proceedings of Learned Societies. 



ROYAL SOCI ETY. 



Address of the Marquis of Northampton, President, read at the 

 Anniversary Meeting, November 30, 1839. 



Gentlemen, 



A YEAR having now elapsed since you conferred upon me the 

 highly honourable office of your President, it becomes my duty, 

 in accordance with the example of my predecessors, to address you. 

 The first and most agreeable part of my task is to express my feelings of 

 gratitude to those Gentlemen whom you were pleased to select as my 

 Council. I am most highly indebted to them for the zealous co-ope- 

 ration and hearty assistance which I have ever received at their 

 hands. It is to them that I have looked to aid my inexperience, and 

 to supply my manifold deficiencies, and I have not been disappointed. 

 To those who are the more permanent officers of the Society, the 

 Treasurer and the Secretaries, my obligations are particularly great, 

 and I will venture to add, that to them, as well as to the other mem- 

 bers of the Council, your thanks are due as well as mine. 



The past year has indeed been to that portion of the Royal So- 



