1863.] 



Presidenfs Address. 



39 



Mr. Gassiot is still pursuing his electrical researches, and we may be 

 assured that he will feel this acknowledgment of his labours by the Royal 

 Society not merely as a recompense for that he has accomplished, but as 

 an obligation to continued exertion and new discoveries. 



Mr. Gassiot, 



Yon will receive this Medal as a mark of the deep interest which the 

 Royal Society takes in the investigations in which you are engaged, and of 

 the high value which it attaches to the results with which you have already 

 enriched our Transactions. 



These are the grounds on which the Medal has been awarded to you by 

 the Council. But it may be permitted to me to express the hope that you 

 will also associate with it — as it is impossible that we should not do — the 

 Society's recognition of the generous and kindly spirit which has manifested 

 itself, as elsewhere, so also in all your pursuit of Science ; and of which one 

 memorial amongst others will remain in future times connected with the 

 Society, in the establishment of the Scientific Relief Fund. 



On the motion of Professor Owen, seconded by Mr. Gwyn Jeffreys, it was 

 resolved — " That the thanks of the Society be returned to the President 

 for his Address, and that he be requested to allow it to be printed."' 



The Statutes for the election of Council and Officers having been read, 

 and Dr. W. Farr and Mr. Evans having been, with the consent of the 

 Society, nominated Scrutators, the votes of the Fellows present were col- 

 lected, and the following were declared duly elected as Council and Officers 

 for the ensuing year : — 



President. — Major-General Edward Sabine, R.A., D.C.L., LL.D. 



Treasurer. — William Allen Miller, M.D., LL.D. 



Secretaries — I ^^^^^^"^ Sharpey, M.D., LL.D. 

 e re aries. | Qeorge Gabriel Stokes, Esq., M.A., D.C.L. 



Foreign Secretary. — Prof. William Hallows Miller, IM.A. 



Other Members of the Council. — James Alderson, M.D. ; George Busk, 

 Esq., Sec. L.S. ; Col. Sir George Everest, C.B. ; Hugh Falconer, M.A., 

 M.D. ; John Hall Gladstone, Esq., Ph.D. ; Joseph Dalton Hooker, M.D. ; 

 Henry Bence Jones, M.A., M.D. ; Prof. James Clerk Maxwell, M.A. ; 

 Prof. William Pole, C.E. ; Archibald Smith, Esq., M.A. ; Prof. Henry J. 

 Stephen Smith, M.A. ; The Earl Stanhope, P.S.A., D.C.L. ; Prof. James 

 Joseph Sylvester, M.A. ; Thomas Watson, M.D., D.C.L. ; Prof. Charles 

 Wheatstone, D.C.L. ; Rev. Prof. Robert Willis, M.A. 



On the motion of Mr. Brayley, seconded by Mr. Balfour Stewart, the 

 thanks of the Society were voted to the Scrutators. The Society then 

 adjourned. 



