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ANNIVEESAEY ADDRESS 



HIS EXCELLENCY SIR HENRY BARKLY, K.C.B., 



&c. &c. &c. 



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

 held on the 8th April, 1861.] 



Gentlemen of the Royal Society of Victoria, 



As you have been pleased unanimously to re-elect 

 me your President, it becomes my duty, on assuming office 

 to night, to deliver the customary inaugural address. 



1 shall begin by tracing the proceedings of the Society for 

 the past year, and then glance briefly at the progress of 

 scientific pursuits in general in this community during the 

 same period. 



With regard to the first, I think I may assert that the 

 ordinary monthly meetings in our neAV hall have been better 

 attended than heretofore, and that several communications 

 ofmuch interest have been read at them. 



