The following gentlemen were then elected Officers for 

 the year : — 



President — Joseph Brooks Yates, Esq. 



Vice-Presidents — Rev. Dr. Tattershall, Dr. Dickinson, 



and Mr. Archer. 



Treasurer — Dr. Duncan. 



Secretary — Mr. Yaniewicz. 



Council — Dr. Brett, Rev. Dr. Hume, Mr. Cunningham, 



Dr. Watson, Mr. Sweetlove, Dr. Dickinson, Mr. 



Archer, and the Rev. J. C. Prince, together with the 



President, the Senior Vice-President, the Treasurer, 



and the Secretary, who are members ex officio. 



Mr. E. Kemp, Mr. G. Simpson, and Mr. Thomas 

 Inman were admitted Members of the Society. 



The ordinary business of the Society having been dis- 

 posed of, 



The President delivered the following Address : — 



" Our Society having been augmented by the recent union 

 with the " Natural History Society" of Liverpool, I sincerely 

 congratulate the collective body upon the auspicious event, 

 which will, doubtless, be attended with most advantageous 

 results. The Natural History Society has numbered in its 

 ranks several distinguished members, with whose researches 

 we shall henceforward be more intimately acquainted. And 

 it is no light privilege to have among us those who pry 

 into the arcana of animal and vegetable economy — adapting 

 them to the use and enjoyment of man, and leading us, by 

 a delightful induction, to an increased knowledge of the 

 Great Author of all happiness, and order, and moral fitness. 

 Permit me now to express an ardent hope that, with our 

 concentrated forces, we are (at the opening of the present 

 session) entering upon a field of brilliant achievements in 

 Science, Literature, and the Arts. 



" But whilst we anticipate these results from our internal 

 resources, surely the aspect of external circumstances 



