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ANNIVEESARY ADDEESS 



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 28th April, 1862.] 



Mr. Vice-President and Gentlemen of the 

 Royal Society, 



In reviewing the events of the past twelve months 

 which interest or affect this institution, I am painfully 

 reminded by the name it has the honour to bear, of the loss 

 we, in common with our Queen and country, have sustained 

 in the death of His Royal Highness the Prince Consort. 

 True, that as a scientific body, it is only with the last of the 

 long list of high-sounding titles which, as if to mark the 

 mutability and emptiness of earthly grandeur, were in- 

 scribed on his coffin, " President of the British Association," 

 that we are directly concerned ; but even in this limited 

 point of view, the greatness of the loss cannot be 

 questioned. 



