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obligations to various members of the Society, may still excite their 
willing co-operation towards perfecting a catalogue of British Fossil 
Remains, from which the geologist may reason with confidence, and 
which the naturalist may consult with advantage. 
It was then resolved :— 
1. That the thanks of this Society be given to the Rev. Prof. 
Whewell, retiring from the office of Vice-President. 
2. That the thanks of this Society be given to Francis Baily, Esq., 
the Earl of Enniskillen, Daniel Sharpe, Esq., and James Smith, Esq., 
retiring from the Council. 
After the Balloting Glasses had duly closed, and the lists examined 
by the Scrutineers, the following gentlemen were declared to have 
been duly elected the Officers and Council for the ensuing year :— 
OFFICERS. 
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PRESIDENT. 
Roderick Impey Murchison, Esq., F.R.S. & L.S. Hon. M.R.LA., &c. 
VICE-P RESIDENTS. 
Rey. W. Buckland, D.D. Professor of Geology and Mineralogy in 
the University of Oxford. 
C. G. B. Daubeny, M.D. F.R.S. & L.S. Reg. Prof. of Botany in the 
University of Oxford. ; 
W. H. Fitton, M.D. F.R.S. & L.S. 
Charles Lyell, Esq. F.R.S. & L.S. 
SECRETARIES. 
Edward Herbert Bunbury, Esq. 
William John Hamilton, Esq. M.P. 
FOREIGN SECRETARY. 
H. T. De la Beche, Esq. F.R.S. & L.S. 
TREASURER. 
John Taylor, Esq. F.R.S. 
COUNCIL. 
Arthur Aikin, Esq. F.L.S. Leonard Horner, Esq. F.R.S.L.S. 
Robert A. C. Austen, Esq. Robert Hutton, Esq. M.R.LA. 
Charles Darwin, Esq. F.R.S. Gideon A. Mantell, LL.D. F.R.S. 
Sir P. Grey Egerton, Bart. M.P. || Joseph Prestwich, jun. Esq. 
F.R.S. Rev. Prof. Sedgwick, F.R.S. L.8. 
G. B. Greenough, Esq. F-.R.S. || Earl of Selkirk, F.R.S. 
LS: Hugh Edwin Strickland, Esq. 
Sir W. J. Hooker, K.C.H. F.R.S. || Henry Warburton, Esq. F.R.S. 
