OFFICERS AND COUNCIL, 1855-56. 



TRUSTEES (PERMANENT). 

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

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



PRESIDENT. 

 The Duke of Argyll, F.R.S. 

 VICE-PRESIDENTS. 

 The Very Rev. Principal M"=Farlane, D.D. Walter Crum, Esq., F.R.S. 

 Sir William Jardine, Bt, F.R.S.E., F.L.S. Thomas Graham, M.A., F.R.S., Hon. Mem. 

 Sir Charles Lyell, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., R.S.Ed., F.G.S., Master of the Royal Mint. 

 Hon. Mem. R.S.Ed., F.L.S. , F.G.S. William Thomson, M.A., F.R.S. L. & E., 



James Smith, Esq., F.R.S.L.&E., F.G.S., Professor of Natural Philosophy in the 

 F.R.G.S., M.W.S. University of Glasgow. 



PRESIDENT ELECT. 



Charles G. B. Daubeny, M.D., F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S., Hon. M.R.LA., Regius 

 Professor of Botany in the University of Oxford. 



VICE-PRESIDENTS ELECT. 

 The Earl of 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.R.Geogr. Thomas Barwick Lloyd Baker, Esq. 

 The Rev. Francis Close, M.A. 



LOCAL SECRETARIES FOR THE MEETING AT CHELTENHAM. 



Captain Robertson, R.A., Rodney House, Cheltenham. 



Richard Beamish, Esq., F.R.S., F.S.S., 2 Suffolk Square, Cheltenham. 



John West Hugall, Esq., 4 Essex Place, Cheltenham. 



LOCAL TREASURERS FOR THE MEETING AT CHELTENHAM. 



James Webster, Esq. James Agg Gardner, Esq. 



ORDINARY MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL. 



Arnott, Neil, M.D., F.R.S. Grove, William R., F.R.S. Sh arpey, Professor, Sec. R.S. 



Beechey, Rear-Admiral, Heywood, jAMES,Esq.,M.P. Stokes, Professor, F.R.S. 



F.R.S. Horner, L., Esq., F.R.S. Sykes, Lt.-Col. W. H., F.R.S. 



Bell, Prof., Pres.L.S., F.R.S. Hutton, Robert, F.G.S. Tite, W., M.P., F.S.A.,F.R.S. 



Brooke, Charles, Esq., Lankester, E., M.D., F.R.S. Tooke, T., Esq., F.R.S. 



B.A., F.R.S. Miller, Prof. W. A., M.D., Tyndall, Professor, F.R.S. 



Darwin, Charles, F.R.S. F.R.S. Webster, Thomas, F.R.S. 



Egerton, Sir Philip, Bart., Milnes, R. M., Esq., M.P. Wheatstone, Prof., F.R.S. 



M. P., F.R.S. Owen, Professor, F.R.S. WROTTESLEY,Lord,Pres.R.S. 



Gassiot, John P., F.R.S. Rennie, George, 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 Fitzwilliam. Rev. Dr. Buckland. Rev. Professor Sedgwick. 

 Sir Thomas M. Brisbane. The Marquis of Lansdowne. The Earl of Burlington. Rev. W. 

 V. Harcourt. The Marquis of Breadalbane. Rev. Dr. Whewell. The Earl of Ellesmere. 

 The Earl of Rosse. The Dean of Ely. Sir John F. W. Herschel, Bart. Sir Roderick L Mur- 

 chison. The Rev. Dr. Robinson. Sir David Brewster. G. B. Airy, Esq., the Astronomer 

 Royal. Colonel Sabine. William Hopkins, Esq., F.R.S. The Earl of Harrowby. 



GENERAL SECRETARY. 

 Colonel 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., Deputy 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 Ramsay, M.A., Glasgow. 



C.C.Babington,Esq.,M.A.,F.R.S.,Cam*r%e. Robert P. Greg, Esq., F.G.S.. Manchester. 

 William Brand, Esq., Edinburgh. J. Sadleir Moody, Esq., Southampton. 



John H. Orpen, LL.D., Dublin. John Gwyn JeflFreys, Esq., F.R.S., Swansea. 



WilUam Sanders, Esq., F.G.S., Bristol. J. B. Alexander, Esq., Ipswich. 



Robert M'Andrew, Esq., F.R.S., Liverpool. Robert Patterson, Esq., Belfast. 

 W. R. Wills, Esq., Birmingham. Edmund Smith, Esq., Hull. 



AUDITORS. 

 A. Follett Osier, Esq. Wm. Tite, Esq., M.P. Edwin Lankester, M.D, 



