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appeared to his mind. Nor must we omit to add, while using a 

 qualifying expression to save the right of free opinion, and to avoid 

 implying a decision which is not within our province, that in every 

 one of his controversies, that which was truth and justice to the 

 mind of Mr. Sheepshanks was nothing less to the minds of very 

 many from whom no thinking man would differ without cautious 

 examination. He was a devoted friend and a formidable opponent. 



On the motion of J. P Gassiot, Esq., seconded by the Rev. Dr. 

 Booth, the 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. 



Dr. Roget and William Spence, Esq. having, with the consent of 

 the Society, been nominated Scrutators, the votes of the Fellows 

 present were collected. 



The following Noblemen and Gentleman were reported duly 

 elected Officers and Council for the ensuing year : 



President The Lord Wrottesley, M.A. 

 Treasurer Colonel Edward Sabine, R.A. 



f William Sharpey, M.D. 

 Secretaries < r J 



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

 Foreign Secretary Rear- Admiral W. H. Smyth. 



Other Members of the Council The Duke of Argyll ; Neil Arnott, 

 M.D. ; Rear-Admiral F. W. Beechey ; Sir Benjamin Brodie, Bart. ; 

 William Benjamin Carpenter, M.D. ; Arthur Cayley, Esq. ; Rev. 

 James Challis, M.A. ; Charles Darwin, Esq., M.A. ; Sir Philip de 

 M. Grey Egerton, Bart. ; William Fairbairn, Esq. ; John Miers, 

 Esq. ; William Allen Miller, M.D. ; William Hallows Miller, Esq., 

 M.A. ; James Paget, Esq. ; John Stenhouse, LL.D. ; Rev. Robert 

 Walker. 



