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for he possessed great knowledge of the habits, economic and medi- 

 cinal properties and uses of plants, drew up many valuable reports 

 on the agricultural products and forests of India, and was very 

 extensively read in the literature of the science. He was further an 

 elegant scholar, a classical writer, and an accomplished European 

 and Oriental linguist. His loss has been deeply felt by botanists of 

 all classes, for he was always contributing information and materials to 

 those engaged in the study of the most abstruse as well as the most 

 popular branches of the science. It may truly be said that no one ever 

 applied to him in vain, nor has a book of any importance been 

 published on botany in Europe within the last thirty years, in 

 which Dr. Wallich's name is not prominently introduced. 



Dr. Wallich was a Doctor of Medicine and of Philosophy, Fellow 

 of the Royal Danish Society of Copenhagen, a Correspondent of the 

 Academies of Sciences of Paris and Berlin, and a member of most 

 of the learned bodies of Europe. He was a Vice-President of the 

 Linnean Society of London, and a Knight-Commander of the Danish 

 Order of Dannebrog. He was elected a Fellow of this Society in 

 March 1829, and nominated a Vice-President in 1852. 



On the motion of the Rev. Baden Powell, seconded by Dr. 

 Warren, the best thanks of the Society were given to the President 

 for his excellent Address, and his Lordship was requested to permit 

 the same to be, printed. 



The Statutes relating to the election of Officers and Council 

 having been read, and Dr. Roget and Thomas Webster, Esq. having, 

 with the consent of the Society, been nominated Scrutators, the 

 votes of the Fellows present were collected. 



The following Noblemen and Gentlemen were reported duly 

 elected Officers and Council for the ensuing year : 



President The Lord Wrottesley, M.A. 

 Treasurer Colonel Edward Sabine, R.A. 



f, . f William Sharpey, M.D. 



Secretaries < ^ J 



I George Gabriel Stokes, Esq., M.A. 

 Foreign Secretary Rear-Admiral W. H. Smyth. 

 Other Members of the Council. Neil Arnott, M.D. ; Rear- Admiral 



