OFFICERS AND COUNCIL, 1856-57. 



TRUSTEES (PERMANENT). 

 Sir Roderick I.MuRCHisoN,G.C.S'.S.,F.R.S. The Very Rev. GeorgePbacock,D.D., Dean 

 John Taylor, Esq., F.R.S. ■* of Ely, F.R.S. 



PREStDENT. 



CHARLES G. B. DAUBENY, M.D., F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S., Hon. M.R.I^., 



Regius Professor of Botany in the University of Oxford. 



VICE-PRESIDENTS. 

 The Earl Ducie, F.R.S., F.G.S. Soc, Director-General of the Geological 



Sir Roderick I. Murchison, G.C.S'.S., Survey of the United Kingdom. 

 D.C.L.,F.R.S.,F.G.S.,F.L.S.,V.P.H.Geogr. Thomas Barwick Lloyd Baker, Esq. 

 The Rev. Francis Close, M.A. 



PRESIDENT ELECT. 

 The REV. HUMPHREY LLOYD, D.D., D.C.L., F.R.S. L. & E., V.P.R.LA., 

 Trinity College, Dublin. 

 VICE-PRESIDENTS ELECT. 

 The Rt. Hon. the Lord Mayor of Dublin. Sir William R. Hamilton, LL.D.,F.R.A.S., 

 The Provost of Trinity College, Dubhn. Astronomer Royal of Ireland. 



The Marquis of Kildare. Lt. -Colonel Larcom, R.E., LL.D., F.R.S. 



The Lord Talbot de Malahide. Richard J. Griffith, LL.D., M.R.LA., 



The Lord Chief Baron, Dublin. F.R.S.E., F.G.S. 



LOCAL SECRETARIES FOR THE MEETING AT DUBLIN. 

 LuNDY E. FooTE, Esq., Secretary to Royal Dul)lin Society. 

 Rev. Professor Jellett, Secretary to Royal Irish Academy. 

 W. Neilson Hancock, LL.D., Secretary to Statistical Society, Dublin. 

 LOCAL TREASURER FOR THE MEETING AT DUBLIN. 

 John H. Orpen, LL.D. 

 ORDINARY MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL. 

 Bell, Prof., Pres.L.S., F.R.S. Lyell, Sir C, D.C.L., F.R.S. SHARPEY,Professor, Sec.R.S. 

 Darwin, Charles, F.R.S. Miller, Prof. W. A., M.D., Stanley, Lord. 

 Gassiot, John P., F.R.S. F.R.S. Stokes, Professor, F.R.S. 



Gray, J. E., Ph.D., F.R.S. Owen, Professor, F.R.S. Tite,W., U.P., F.S.A.,F.R.S. 



Grove, William R., F.R.S. Price, Rev. Prof., F.R.S. Walker, Rev. Prof., F.R.S. 



Heywood, James, Esq. RAWLiNSON,ColonelSu-H.C., Webster, Thomas, F.R.S. 



Hutton, Robert, F.G.S. K.C.B., F.R.S. WROTTESLEY,Lord,Pres.R.S. 



Latham, R. G., M.D., F.R.S. Rennie, George, F.R.S. Yates, James, F.R.S. 



EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL. 

 The President and President Elect, the Vice-Presidents and Vice-Presidents Elect, the Ge- 

 neral and Assistant-General Secretaries, the General Treasurer, the Trustees, and the Presi- 

 dents of former years, viz. The Earl FitzwiUiam. Rev. Professor Sedgwick. Sir Thomas M. 

 Brisbane. The Marquis of Lansdowne. The Earl of Burlington. Rev. W. V. Harcourt. 

 The Marquis of Bieadalbane. Rev. Dr. Whewell. The Earl of EUesmere. The Earl of 

 Rosse. The Dean of Ely. Sir John F. W. Herschel, Bart. Sir Roderick I. Murchison. The 

 Rev. Dr. Robinson. Sir David Brewster. G. B. Airy, Esq., the Astronomer Royal. General 

 Sabine. WiUiam Hopkins, Esq., F.R.S. The Earl of Harrowby. The Duke of Argyll. 

 GENERAL SECRETARY. 

 Major-General Edward Sabine, R.A., Treas. & V.P.R.S., F.R.A.S., 

 13 Ashley Place, Westminster. 



ASSISTANT GENERAL SECRETARY. 



John Phillips, Esq., M.A., F.R.S., F.G.S., Reader in Geology in the University of 



Oxford ; Magdalen Bridge, Oxford. 



GENERAL TREASURER. 

 John Taylor, Esq., F.R.S., 6 Queen Street Place, Upper Thames Street, London. 



LOCAL TREASURERS. 



William Gray, Esq., F.G.S., York. Professor Ramsav, M.A., Glasgow. 



C.C.Babington,Esq.,M.A.,F.R.S.,Camdnd'ye. Robert P. Greg, Esq., F.G.S., Manchester. 

 William Brand, Esq., Edinburgh. John Gwyn Jeffreys, Esq., F.R.S., Swansea. 



John H. Orpen, LL.D., Dublin. J. B. Alexander, Esq., Ipswich. 



Wilham Sanders, Esq., F.G.S., Bristol. Robert Patterson, Esq., U.^.l.k.., Belfast, 



Robert M'Andrew, Esq., F.R.S., Liverpool. Edmund Smith, Esq., Hull, 

 W, R. Wills, Esq., Birmingham, James Agg Gardner, Esq., Cheltenham, 



AUDITORS. 



William Tite, Esq., M.P. Edwin Lankester, M.D. Jame» Yates, Esq. 



