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Anniversary Meeting. 



[Nov. 30, 



On the Foreign List. 



Cesar Mansuete Despretz. | Eilhard Mitscherlich. 

 Carl Riimker. 



Withdrawn. 



Edward John Littleton, Baron Hatherton. 

 Lieut.-General William Monteith. 



Fellows elected since the last Anniversary. 

 On the Home List. 



The Right Hon. Edward Pleydell 



Bouverie. 

 Edward William Cooke, Esq., 



A.R.A. 

 William Crookes, Esq. 

 Col. Frederick M. Eardley-Wil- 



mot, R.A. 

 James Fergusson, Esq. 

 Frederick Field, Esq. 

 Rev. Robert Harley. 

 The Right Hon. Sir Edmund 



Walker Head, Bart. 



John Russell Hind, Esq. 

 Charles Watkins Merrifield, Esq. 

 Professor Daniel Oliver. 

 Frederick William Pavy, M.D. 

 William Pengelly, Esq. 

 Henry Enfield Roscoe, B.A. 

 Rev. George Salmon, D.D. 

 Samuel James Augustus Salter, 

 M.B. 



Rev . Arthur Penrhy n Stanley, D . D . 

 William Thomson, D.D., His Grace 

 The Archbishop of York. 



Readmitted. 

 Capt. L. L. Boscawen Ibbetson. 



On the Foreign List. 

 Ernst Eduard Kummer. | Heinrich Gustav Magnus. 

 Johannes Japetus Smith Steenstrup. 



The President then addressed the Society as follows : — 

 Gentlemen, 



When I had last the honour of addressing you at the Anniversary 

 Meeting in 1862, I acquainted you that a communication had been 

 received by your President and Council from the Duke of Newcastle, 

 Her Majesty's principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, requesting the 

 opinion of the Royal Society on the scientific importance of the results to 

 be expected from the establishment of a Telescope of great optical power 

 at Melbourne, in the Colony of Victoria, for the observation of the nebulae 

 and multiple stars of the Southern Hemisphere. The communication was 

 founded on a despatch from Sir Henry Barkly, K.C.B., Governor of Vic- 

 toria, soliciting on his own part and on that of the Visitors of the Melbourne 



