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Baron Von Lindenau. 

 Macedonie Melloni. 



E. B. Beaumont. 



On the Foreign List. 



Charles FransoisBrisseauMirbel. 



Withdrawn, 

 Captain Chapman, R.A. 



Defaulters. 



I E. W. Tuson. 



List of Fellows elected since the last Anniversary. 



George James Allman, M.D. 

 William Bingham Baring, Lord 



Ashburton. 



Edward William Brayley, Esq. 

 Alexander Bryson, M.D. 

 J. Lockhart Clarke, Esq. 

 Joseph Dickinson, M.D. 

 Ronald Campbell Gunn, Esq. 

 Robert Hunt, Esq. 



John Bennet Lawes, Esq. 

 Robert Mallet, Esq. 

 Charles May, Esq. 

 Capt. Thomas E. L. Moore, R.N. 

 Captain Richard Strachey. 

 Robert Dundas Thomson, M.D. 

 Samuel Charles Whitbread, Esq. 

 Wm. Crawford Williamson, Esq. 



' The President then addressed the Society as follows : 



GENTLEMEN, 



WHEN we met last November, I ventured to remark that the objects 

 of science were better understood than they had been formerly, and 

 that accurate notions on scientific subjects were becoming more 

 prevalent : the progress in tha.t direction has still continued, and 

 during the last year it has been even more decided than before. 



With the spread of knowledge, the great body of the community 

 are now better enabled to appreciate the importance of science in 

 promoting the moral and physical improvement of mankind ; there 

 is consequently a growing desire that science should be advanced, 

 and as that object has been best effected by scientific societies, they 

 are regarded with more interest. Public opinion having taken that 

 direction decidedly, it was not unreasonable to expect that Govern- 

 ment would feel anxious to meet the wishes of the scientific bodies, 

 and provide them with a building where they would be enabled to 



