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ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS 



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

 &c. &c. &c. 



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

 held on the 7th May, 1863.] 



Gentlemen of the Royal Society of Victoria, 



I did not expect to be called on to address you 

 again from this chair, but as you have been pleased unan- 

 imously to re-elect me your president, notwithstanding my 

 suggestion that another should this year be chosen, I must 

 continue to discharge the duties of the office to the best of 

 my ability. 



In taking, as usual, a rapid retrospect of the operations of 

 the Society, and of the general progress of science in this 

 country during the past twelvemonth, I shall not have to 

 detain you long. So far, indeed, as the former are concerned 

 it may be described as a period in which the results of past 

 labours were realised, rather than one wherein fresh enter- 

 prises were inaugurated. Step by step our know] edge of 



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