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Bulletin de la Sceance du 5 October, 1844, No. 9, 

 Tome XL; 2nd Nov., 1844, No. 10, Tome XL; 15th Dec. 

 and 30th Dec, Nos. 11 and 12, Tome XL; No. 1, 11th 

 Jan., 1845; No. 2, 1st Feb., 1845; No. 3, 1st March, 1845; 

 No. 6, 7th June, 1845, Tome XIL Presented by the Aca- 

 demy. 



Annuaire de r Academic Royale des Sciences et Belles 

 Lettres de Bruxelles. Onzieme Annuare, 1845. Presented by 

 the Academy. 



Memoir of Simon Sfevin. By A. Quetelet. Presented 

 by the Author. 



Catalogue of Stars of the British Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science. Presented by the Association. 



Flora Batava. Nos. 139 and 140. Presented by the 

 King of Holland. 



Geological Map of the State of New York. By Legis- 

 lative Authority. Presented by the State of New York. 



13th April, 1846. 



Rev. HUMPHREY LLOYD, D.D., President, in the 



Chair. 



John Alcorn, Esq., Abraham W. Baker, Esq., Philip 



Bevan, M.D., John Oliver Curran, M.B., Matthew D'Arcy, 



Esq., James Birch Kennedy, Esq., Michael H. Stapleton, 



M.B., and the Hon. and Rev. William Wingfield, were 



elected Members of the Academy. 



The President, on taking the Chair, delivered the follow- 

 ing Inaugural Address : 



" Gentlemen, — My first — my most m-gent duty — on this, to me 

 most solemn occasion, is to thank you for the high distinction you 

 liave conferred. It would be idle to attempt to express how highly I 

 esteem the honour : tlie thought that I had been deemed worthy to 



