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A Table for converting Space into Time— Time into Space. 



IX. Proceedings of Learned Societies. 



ROYAL SOCIETY. 



Nov. 30, 1829. — This day being the Anniversary, the foUoxuing Ad- 

 dress "was delivered by the President, Davies Gilbert, Esq. M.P. S^c. 

 ON a former occasion I had the honour to observe, that however 

 gratifying, or even festive, might be the general character of 

 these annual assemblages of men engaged in the active pursuit, or in 

 the patronage of science; yet we could not hope entirely to escape 

 from the usual admixture of pain with pleasure, and of good with 

 evil, incident to all human attairs; that we must expect to hear, with 

 feelings of deep regret, the names of various persons announced to 

 us as departed from this life ; of persons endeared to us by private 

 friendships growing out of similar occupations and pursuits, or made 

 objects of our regard and esteem by their splendid careers in the 

 fields of science, by the credit they had acquired for themselves, for 

 this Society, for their country, by their enlargement of human know- 

 ledge, and by the consequent benefits they had bestowed on mankind. 

 Such must undoubtedly be our feelings at such review of the 

 preceding year : but in no previous interval of twelve months has 

 the Society collectively, or have its individual members, experienced 

 losses so severe, or so much in every respect to be deplored, as may 

 be selected from the list this instant read. 



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