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Anniversary Address of the President, 

 Mr. R. L. J. Ellery, F.R.A.S., Government Astronomer. 



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

 Meeting, held on the 26th March, 1868. 



Gentlemen of the Royal Society of Victoria, 



For the third time it devolves upon me, as your President, 

 to deliver the Annual Address, on this occasion inaugurat- 

 ing our thirteenth session. 



The honour you have thus conferred upon me was, I confess, 

 an unexpected one ; I beg however to assure you most 

 earnestly, that I am fully sensible of the distinction implied 

 in your trust, and no less of the responsibility which it 

 entails. 



On similar occasions it has been our custom to review the 

 Society's operations during the previous session, touching 

 also on the scientific progress of our public scientific institu- 

 tions during the past year. • Adopting our usual plan, I now 

 propose to briefly review, first, the contributions laid before you 

 at your various meetings during your last session, following 

 this by a general survey of the year's history of our scien- 

 tific departments, and concluding with a brief notice of one or 



