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President's Address, 



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complexity of its molecule ; and he lias given some remarkable instances 

 in which the law is found to be true. Whatever may be thought of our 

 ability to explain the law in the present state of our knowledge respect- 

 ing the molecular constitution of bodies, the law itself is in any case 

 highly remarkable. 



Peofessor Tyndall, 

 In presenting you with this Medal I will acknowledge that I am more 

 embarrassed in the choice of the expressions which should accompany it 

 than in the three preceding instances, arising from the warm feelings of 

 personal regard and admiration which I have felt for you, I may permit 

 myself to say, from the very commencement of your scientific career in 

 this country. It has been your fate, Sir, that each last achievement 

 may almost be said to have dimmed the lustre of those which preceded 

 it. I will only add the expression of my heartfelt hope that your health, 

 so valuable to us all, and which ought not therefore to be lightly com- 

 promised, will be preserved to enable you to accomplish fresh labours 

 which shall still surpass those which have gone before. 



On the motion of Sir Henry Holland, seconded by the Master of the 

 Mint, 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 Mr. John Hogg and Professor Huxley having been, with the consent 

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

 collected, 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. 



. _ r William Sharpey, M.D., LL.D. 

 Secretaries. | ^^^^^^ Qahviel Stokes, Esq., M.A., D.C.L. 



r 



Foreign Secretary. — Professor William Hallows Miller, M.A. 



Other Members of the Council. — Professor John Couch Adams, M.A. ; 

 James Alderson, M.D. ; George Busk, Esq., Sec. L.S. ; Colonel Sir George 

 Everest, C.B. ; Hugh Falconer, M.A., M.D. ; John Peter Gassiot, Esq. ; 

 John Edward Gray, Ph.D. ; Thomas Archer Hirst, Ph.D. ; Sir Henry 

 Holland, Bart., M.D., D.C.L. ; Henry Bence Jones, M.A., M.D. ; Sir 

 Roderick Impey Murchison, K.C.B. ; William Odling, M.B. ; Professor 

 WilUam Pole, C.E. ; Rev. Bartholomew Price, M.A. ; Sir John Rennie, 

 Knt. ; The Lord Stanley. 



On the motion of Mr. Arnott, seconded by Mr. Bowman, the thanks of 

 the Society were voted to the Scrutators. The Society then adjourned. 



