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Lll. Proceedings of Learned Societies. 



ROYAL SOCIETY. 



JNovember 30. — Being St. Andrew's day, the Royal iso* 

 ciety held their anniversary meeting at their apartments in 

 Somerset-place, when the president, the right hon. Sir 

 Joseph Banks, ban. K.B., in, the name of the Society, pre- 

 sented the gold medal (called Sir Godfrey Copley's) to Wil- 

 liam Henry, M.D., for his various papers communicated to 

 the Society, and printed in the Philosophical Transactions. 



The Society then proceeded to the choice of the council 

 and officers for the em-'uini» year ; when, on examining the 

 ballots, it appeared thai the following gentlemen were elect- 

 ed of the council : 



Of the old council — The right hon. Sir Joseph Banks, 

 bart. K.B., Sir Charles Blagden, Knt., Henry Cavendish, 

 esq., Humphry Davy, esq., John Gillies, L.L.D., right 

 hon. Charles Greville, William Marsden, esq., Rev. Nevi! 

 Maskelyne, D.D., George Earl of Morton, John Rennie, 

 esq., Wm. Hyde Wollaston, M.D. 



Of the new council — Edward Ash, M.D., Frederick Au- 

 gustus Barnard, esq., John Blaekburne, esq., Samuel Good- 

 enough, Lord Bishop of Carlisle, Thomas Earl of Chiches- 

 ter, Henry Hugh Hoare, esq., Sir Richard Colt Hoare, 

 bart., John Lord Stlsey, William Sotheby, esq., Sir John 

 Thomas Stanley, bart. 



And the officers were — The right hon. Sir Joseph Banks, 

 bart. K.B., president — William Marsden, esq., treasurer — 

 Wm. Hyde Wollaston, M.D., and Humphry Davy, esq., 

 secretaries. 



Afterwards the members of the Society dined together, as 

 usual, at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, in the Strand. 



On delivering the Coplevan medal to Mr. Davy, to be 

 by him transmitted to Dr. Henry of Manchester, the pre- 

 sident, with his usual eloquence, expatiated at considerable 

 length on the propriety of the decision of the council, and 

 the meritorious and successful researches of Dr. Henry in 

 chemistry, pursuing the same course in which his father so 



• 'H-Opily 



