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"Without going to the extent of their gratitude, we ourselves 

 may still desire that the labours of our "friends" in executing 

 the duties of their Commission, whether in diverting an inunda- 

 tion or in bringing a supply to our cities and towns, may be hailed 

 as a " blessing" to the community at large. 



POSTSCRIPT. 



I DO not msh this Address to be incorporated in the Transactions 

 of the Eoyal Society, without a further and regretful reference to 

 the Trigonometrical Survey, mentioned at p. 5. 



This work, there alluded to in connection with a promised 

 Eeport upon it from the then Astronomer, George Eobarts 

 Smalley, Esq., P.E.A.S., was unfortunately interrupted by his 

 illness and unexpected death. But seven weeks elapsed between 

 his occupation of the Chair, at my request, on the occasion of the 

 above Address and my officiating at his funeral on the 13th July 

 following. 



He was one of the most useful members of our Society, and 

 had often rendered it important services. He had been my 

 colleague as Vice-President from the time when the Society took 

 its present title, and was mainly instrumental in that change of 

 designation. 



Mr. Smalley took his degree as B.A. of St. John's College, 

 Cambridge, in 1845, and was afterwards Professor of Mathematics 

 at King's College, London, and Assistant Astronomer in the Cape 

 Town Observatory. He was son of the Eev. George Smalley, 

 Yicar of Debenham in the County of Suffolk, where I remembered 

 him as a boy. 



