il0pl ^odti^ oi Wuiaxm. 



ANNIVEESARY ADDRESS 



OF 



Mr. ELLERY (Government Astronomer of Victoria) 



[Delivered to the Members of the Royal Society, at the Anniversary Meeting 

 held on the 2nd July, 1866. 



Gentlemen of the Royal Society, 



I esteem it a great honour that I have been 

 elected to assume the office of your President this year. In 

 that capacity it now devolves on me to address you on the 

 subject of the progress of youi- Society during the past 

 year, and, following the good example of the older scientific 

 societies of the mother country, give a brief retrospect of 

 the progress in this colony and other parts of the world of 

 those branches of knowledge embraced by your Society. 



But, in the fii'st place, it becomes my mournfulduty to 

 record the loss of one of your oldest and most energetic 

 members, John Macadam, Doctor of Medicine in the 

 University of Glasgow. 



Dr. Macadam died on the 2nd of September, 1865, on 

 board the steamship Alhccnihra, on his way to New Zealand, 

 to which colony he was proceeding on professional business. 

 He had been for a long time previously in bad health, 

 induced in a great measure by the incessant and harassing 



