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List of Fellows elected since the last Anniversary. 



Lionel Smith Beale, Esq. 



George Boole, Esq. 



George Bowdler Buckton, Esq. 



Thomas Davidson, Esq. 



George Grote, Esq. 



Rowland Hill, Esq. 



The Rev. Thomas P. Kirkman. 



John Marshall, Esq. 

 Andrew Smith, M.D. 

 Robert Angus Smith, Esq. 

 Charles Piazzi Smyth, Esq. 

 Henry Clifton Sorby, Esq. 

 John Welsh, Esq . 

 Joseph Whitworth, Esq. 



William Marcet, M.D. 



The President then addressed the Society as follows : 



GENTLEMEN, 



IN considering what ought to form the subject of the Annual Address, 

 it would naturally occur to any one, having the honour to hold the 

 office of your President, that it might be desirable to mention in 

 detail all the important discoveries and researches which had enriched 

 the annals of science since the preceding anniversary ; and in addition, 

 to describe any events which had occurred, or any specific measures 

 which had been adopted, tending to improve the position of science 

 or its cultivators. With respect however to the former, the range of 

 subjects within the cognizance of this Society is so extensive, that the 

 time ordinarily appropriated to the duty, in which I am now engaged, 

 would be utterly inadequate to the purpose ; and it is the less 

 necessary, since it has become the annual custom of the Presidents 

 or Councils of Scientific Associations, cultivating particular branches 

 of science, to take a very extended view of the advance made in 

 their own particular departments ; and in the case of the British 

 Association especially, whose range of subjects is almost as extensive 

 as our own, the Presidents of that Society have been in the habit of 

 giving a very detailed statement of the progress of science during the 

 past year. I may be permitted perhaps to refer for an example to 

 the Address delivered at the last meeting of the British Association, 

 as containing a most able and lucid statement of the kind to which 

 I allude. 



Under the other head to which reference has been made, one of the 

 most important events has been the final adoption by your President 

 and Council of the twelve resolutions, to which I took the liberty of 

 referring on a former occasion. I then stated that we had taken 



