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ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS 



OF 



FREDERICK M'COY, ESQ., F.G.S., fcc. 



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

 Meeting held on the 25th April, 1864.] 



Youe Excellency and Gentlemen, 



In accordance with the annual custom of our Society, it 

 now becomes my duty, as President for the year, to address 

 you on the subject of the progress made by the Royal Society 

 during the past year, and also — following the usual custom in 

 such cases at home — on the progress in the colony of all the 

 chief branches of knowledge embraced by this Society. 



And first, I must refer to the great loss our Society has 

 sustained dining the past year in the departure from the 

 colony of his Excellency Sir Henry Barkly, our President 

 for so many years, and who, by the great interest he took in 

 the Society, the frequency of his presence at our Meetings, 

 the eloquent and able addresses which he delivered as 

 President at our Annual Dinners and Conversaziones, and by 



