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Fellows elected since the last Anniversary. 

 On the Home List. 



[Dec. 1, 



George Bentham, Esq. 

 Henry William Bristow, Esq. 

 The Right Hon. James, Earl of 



Caithness. 

 Alexander Ross Clarke, Captain 



R.E. 



John W. Dawson, Esq., M.A. 

 Frederick J. Owen Evans, Esq., 



R.N. 

 John Braxton Hicks, M.D. 



The Very Rev. W. Farquhar 



Hook, D.D. 

 George Rolleston, M.D. 

 Charles William Siemens, Esq. 

 Maxwell Simpson, Esq. 

 Balfour Stewart, Esq. 

 Thomas Pridgin Teale, Esq. 

 Sir James Emerson Tennent, 



LL.D. 

 Isaac Todhunter, Esq., M.A. 



C. Greville Williams, Esq. 

 On the Foreign List. 



Cesar Mansuete Despretz. | Franz Ernst Neumann. 

 Ernst Heinrich Weber. 



The PRESIDENT then addressed the Society as follows : 



GENTLEMEN, 



IN addressing you for the first time from this Chair as the President 

 whom you have honoured by your choice, my first duty must be the 

 mournful one of expressing our deep regret at the loss we have sus- 

 tained of the eminent person who preceded me. To the highest 

 professional distinction and the scientific attainments appertaining 

 thereto, and to the indispensable moral qualities of truth, justice, 

 and candour, Sir Benjamin Brodie united other qualifications also 

 highly befitting the office in which you placed him : remarkable 

 firmness and decision, accompanied by kindliness and urbanity, and 

 an unusually extensive acquaintance with the sentiments and opinions 

 of different classes of society, particularly of those who cultivate 

 Literature and the Arts. The failure of his health and of his sight 

 deprived us latterly of that habitual attendance at the Meetings of 

 the Society, which he regarded as a duty and valued as a privilege. 

 Whilst we mourn the loss which we have sustained by his decease, 

 we have the gratification of knowing that he deemed the Presidency 

 of the Royal Society the crowning distinction of his most honourable 

 life. 



