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ANNIVERSABY ADDEESS 



BY 



Me. G. Foord, F.C.S. 

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(Delivered to the Members of the Royal Society, at their Annual 

 Conversazione, held 13th August, 1875.) 



Your Excellency, and Gentlemen of the 

 Royal Society, 



This evening we inaugurate the eighteenth session of 

 our Society. Upon such occasions it has become the custom 

 for the President to address the members concerning the 

 Society's progress during the past year, and its prospects 

 in the immediate future. It has also become an accepted 

 practice in these annual addresses to allude, in brief terms, 

 to scientific topics of general interest, concerning discoveries 

 recently made and researches in progress ; not that a review 

 of the world's scientific life, during a single year, could be 

 attempted with any chance of success, from our stand-point 

 and the limited horizon which it affords, but rather, I presume, 

 in the sense of showing, by a few instructive examples, 



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