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The Reports having been read, it was Resolved : — 



1. That these Reports be received ; and that such parts of them as 

 the Council shall think fit, be printed and distributed among the Fel- 

 lows of the Society. 



2. That the thanks of the Society be given to Roderick Impey 

 Murchison, Esq., retiring from the office of President. 



4. That the thanks of the Society be given to the Rev. Professor 

 Buckland, D.D., and the Rev. William Daniel Conybeare, respectively, 

 retiring from the office of Vice Presidents. 



4. That the thanks of the Society be given to William Gift, Esq., 

 Robert Edmund Grant, M.D., Capt. Basil Hall, R.N., Charles 

 Stokes, Esq., and the Rev. William Whewell, retiring from the 

 Council. 



The Meeting then proceeded to ballot for the Officers and Council 

 for the ensuing year ; and on the glasses being closed, the scrutineers 

 announced that the following gentlemen had been duly elected : — 



OFFICERS. 



PRESIDENT. 

 George Bellas Greenough, Esq. F.R.S. L.S. & H.S. M.R.A.S. 



VICE-PRESIDENTS. 



William John Broderip, Esq. B.A. F.R.S. & L.S. 

 Henry Thomas De la Beche, Esq. F.R.S. & L.S. 

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



Rev. Adam Sedgwick, M.A. F.R.S. Woodwardian Professor in the 

 University of Cambridge. 



SECRETARIES. 



Edward Turner, M.D. F.R.S. L. & E. Professor of Chemistry in the 



University of London. 

 William John Hamilton, Esq. 



FOREIGN SECRETARY. 



Charles Lyell, Esq. F.R.S. & L.S. Professor of Geology in King's 

 College, London. 



TREASURER. 

 John Taylor, Esq. F.R.S. 



