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November 25, 1858. 

 W. R. GROVE, Esq., V.P., in the Chair. 



In accordance with the Statutes, notice was given of the ensuing 

 Anniversary Meeting, and the list of Officers and Council proposed 

 for election was read, as follows : 



President. Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, Bart. 



Treasurer. Major- General Sabine, R.A. 



Secretaries.- 



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



Foreign Secretary. William Hallows Miller, Esq., M.A. 



Other Members of the Council. Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland, 

 M.D. ; Rear-Admiral Sir George Back, D.C.L. ; The Rev. John 

 Barlow, M.A. ; Thomas Bell, Esq., Pres. L.S. ; His Grace the 

 Duke of Devonshire, M.A. ; Edward Frankland, Ph.D. ; John Peter 

 Gassiot, Esq. ; Philip Hardwick, Esq., R.A. ; Arthur Henfrey, Esq. ; 

 Lieut. -Colonel Henry James, R.E. ; Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, 

 M.A., D.C.L. ; John Percy, M.D. ; Archibald Smith, Esq., M.A. ; 

 The Rev. William Whewell, D.D.; Charles Wheatstone, Esq.; The 

 Lord Wrottesley, M.A. 



Captain Boxer, R.A., was admitted into the Society. 



Robert W. Bunsen, Louis Poinsot, and Carl Theodor von Siebold, 

 having been severally balloted for, were elected Foreign Members 

 of the Society. 



The following communications were read : 



I. "Researches on the Phosphorus-Bases." No. III. Pho- 

 phoretted Ureas. By A. W. HOFMANN, Ph.D., F.R.S. 

 Received November 18, 1858. 



The existence in the nitrogen- series of a well-defined group of 

 diamines of the formula 



rendered it probable that the continued study of the phosphorus-, 



