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On the Foreign List. 

 Karl Friedrich Gauss. | George Simon Ohm. 



Withdrawn. 

 Captain Sir William Symonds, R.N. 



Defaulters. 

 Robert William Sievier, Esq. | Rev. John Wright, M. A. 



List of Fellows elected since the last Anniversary. 



Arthur Connell, Esq. 



Henry John Reynolds Moreton, 



Earl Ducie. 

 William Farr, Esq. 

 William Lewis Ferdinand Fischer, 



Esq. 



Isaac Fletcher, Esq. 

 William John Hamilton, Esq. 

 Edward John Littleton Baron 



Hatherton. 

 John Hawkshaw, Esq. 



John Hippisley, Esq. 

 James Luke, Esq. 

 A. Follett Osier, Esq. 

 Thomas Thomson, M.D. 

 Charles B. Vignoles, Esq. 

 Charles Vincent Walker, Esq. 

 Robert Wight, M.D. 

 Alexander William Williamson, 



Esq. 

 George Fergusson Wilson, Esq . 



Readmitted. 

 Edward Blackett Beaumont, Esq. 



The President then addressed the Society as follows : 



GENTLEMEN, 



IN addressing you for the first time, it is perhaps to be regretted that 

 the course of events during the last year should have imposed on me 

 the obligation of alluding to subjects which cannot be approached 

 with too much caution, and which involve considerations of no ordi- 

 nary difficulty. 



One of the subjects may be described most generally as the " Re- 

 lation of Science to the supreme authorities in the State ;" and this 

 is chiefly important as it affects the extent to which the claims of 

 Science are recognized and regard paid to its interests by the ruling 

 powers. For example, it has often been more than doubted whether 

 the opinions of eminent men of science, even when expressed in the 



