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June 6, 1861. 



The Annual Meeting for the Election of Fellows was held this day. 



GENERAL SABINE, R.A., Treasurer and Vice-President, iu 

 the Chair. 



A letter was read from the President, intimating that, on account 

 of the condition of his eyesight, he felt it to be his duty to decline 

 being put iu nomination for the Presidency at the next Anniversary. 



The Statutes relating to the Election of Fellows having been read, 

 Sir George Back and Mr. E. W. Brayley were, with the consent of 

 the Society, nominated Scrutators to assist the Secretaries in exami- 

 ning the Lists. 



The votes of the Fellows present having been collected, the follow- 

 ing gentlemen were declared duly elected into the Society : 



Charles Spence Bate, Esq. 

 Heinrich Debus, Esq. 

 Campbell de Morgan, Esq. 

 Thomas A. Hirst, Esq. 

 A. Matthiessen, Esq. 

 J. Clerk Maxwell, M.A. 

 Ferdinand Miiller, M.D. 

 William Newmarch, Esq. 



Edmund Alexander Parkes, M.D. 



William Pole, Esq. 



Philip Lutley Sclater, M.A. 



Charles F. A. Shadwell, Capt. R.N. 



Henry J. Stephen Smith, M.A. 



William Stokes, M.D. 



George Johustone Stoney, M.A. 



June 13, 1861. 



THOMAS GRAHAM, Esq., Master of the Mint, V.P., in the 



Chair. 



Mr. John Allan Broun, Dr. Augustus Matthiessen, and Mr. Wil- 

 liam Newmarch, were admitted into the Society. 



The following communications were read : 



I. " Notice of Recent Scientific Researches carried on Abroad." 

 By the FOREIGN SECRETARY. 



Through M. Haidinger my attention has been called to the im- 



