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have been created as that of modern mathematics. Your eminence 

 as a mathematician is so universally acknowledged that it can need 

 no eulogium from myself, and I have therefore only to add that the 

 Medal which I now place in your hands, is awarded to you hy the 

 Royal Society as a just acknowledgment of the value of your 

 labours. 



On the motion of Sir R. Murchison, seconded by Sir H. Holland, 

 it was resolved, 



" That the thanks of the Society be returned to the President for 

 his Address, and that he be requested to allow it to be printed. 



" That the Society feel deeply indebted to Sir Benjamin Brodie 

 for the care he has continued unremittingly to bestow on the interests 

 committed to him as President, and desire to record the expression 

 of their sincere regret for his retirement, and for the cause which has 

 led to it." 



The Statutes relating to the election of Council and Officers having 

 been read, and Mr. John Bishop and Mr. John Lubbock having been, 

 with the consent of the Society, nominated Scrutators, the votes of 

 the Fellows present were collected. 



The following Gentlemen were declared duly elected Council and 

 Officers for the ensuing year : 



President. Major-General Edward Sabine, R.A., D.C.L., LL.D. 

 Treasurer. William Allen Miller, M.D., LL.D. 



r William Sharpey, M.D., LL.D. 

 teS '~ I George Gabriel Stokes, Esq., M.A., D.C.L. 

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



Other Members of the Council. John Couch Adams, Esq., M. A., 

 D.C.L. ; Sir William George Armstrong, C.B.; Benjamin Guy 

 Babington, M.D. ; Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, Bart., D.C.L. ; 

 George Bowdler Buckton, Esq. ; William Benjamin Carpenter, 

 M.D. ; Sir Philip de Malpas G. Egerton, Bart. ; William Fairbairn, 

 LL.D. ; Captain Douglas Galton, R.E. ; Wm. Robert Grove, Esq., 

 M.A., Q.C. ; William Hopkins, Esq., M.A., LL.D. ; John Lubbock, 

 Esq. ; James Paget, Esq. ; Joseph Prestwich, Esq. ; William Spottis- 

 woode, Esq., M.A. ; John Tyndall, Esq. 



