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be no less effective, in the production of warm personal attachment, 

 and of manly and ingenuous intercourse among its members, than 

 it has been, in maintaining an active and energetic spirit of research. 



The Meeting then proceeded to the election of the Council and 

 Officers for the ensuing year ; when the following list was delivered 

 in by the Scrutineers : — viz. 



President. 

 William Henry Fitton, M.D. F.R.S. &c. 



Vice-Presidents. 

 Arthur Aikin, Esq. F.L.S. 

 Rev. W. Buckland, D.D. F.R.S. &c. Professor of Mineralogy 



and Geology in the University of Oxford. 

 Charles Lyell, Esq. F.R.S. &c. 



Rev. A. Sedgwick, F.R.S. &c. Woodwardian Professor, Cam- 

 bridge. 



Secretaries. 



W. J. Broderip, Esq. F.R.S. &c. 

 R. 1. Murchison, Esq. F.R.S. &c. 



Foreign Secretary. 

 Henry Heuland, Esq. 



Treasurer. 

 John Taylor, Esq. F.R.S. 



Council. 

 J. E. Bicheno, Esq. F.R.S. Sec. L.S. 

 John Bostock, M.D. F.R.S. 

 Rev. W. D. Conybeare, F.R.S. &c. 

 John Crawfurd, Esq. F.R.S. 

 Michael Faraday, Esq. F.R.S. &c. 

 Davies Gilbert, Esq. M.P. Pres. R.S. 

 G. B. Greenough, Esq. F.R.S. 

 J. F. W. Herschel, Esq. F.R.S. Pres. A.S. 

 Leonard Horner, Esq. F.R.S. &c. 

 Ashurst Majendie, Esq. F.R.S. 

 Rev. J. H. Randolph, M.A. 



N. A. Vigors, Esq. F.R.S. Sec. Z.S. ■ . . :.* 



Sir R. R. Vyvyan, Bart. M.P. 

 Henrv Warburton, Esq. M.P. F.R.S. &c. 



