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Ceased to be Fellows in default of their Annual Payments. 



Robert Grymbald Bigsby, Esq. I Rev. George Glover^ Archdeacon 

 Henry Napier, Esq., Capt. R.N. | of Sudbury. 



List of Admissions into the Royal Society since the last Anniver- 

 sary (1844^). 



On the Home List. 



Adair, Robert Shafto, Esq. 

 Bandon, Right Hon. the Earl of. 

 Barlow, Peter William, Esq. 

 Barrow, John, jun., Esq. 

 Dickenson, John, Esq. 

 Falconer, Hugh, M.D. 

 Forbes, Edward, Esq. 

 Fownes, George, Esq. 

 Harrison, Thomas Charles, Esq. 

 Jackson, Colonel Julius. 

 Johnston, Alexander Robert, Esq. 

 Martin, James Ranald, Esq. 

 Miller, William Allen, M.D. 



Monteith, Major-Gen. William. 

 Rennie, James, Esq. 

 Simon, John, Esq. 

 Sopwith, Thomas, Esq. 

 Stebbing, Rev. Henry, D.D. 

 Taylor, Alfred Swaine, Esq. 

 Thesiger, Sir Frederick. 

 Tupper, Martin Farquhar, Esq. 

 Washington, John, Esq., Capt. 

 R.N. 



Wilson, Erasmus, Esq. 

 Wilson, Rev. John, D.D. 



The President then addressed the Meeting as follows : — 



Gentlemen, 



I DEEPLY regret that I have to commence my address to you by 

 lamenting, in common with the whole Society, that after many years 

 of the most valuable services, Sir John Lubbock has resigned the 

 situation of your Treasurer. As he is now not generally resident 

 in London, he feels the inconvenience of the necessary attendance 

 on your business so great, that we cannot further urge his retention 

 of that important office. T am quite sure that I shall be no unfaith- 

 ful interpreter of your feelings when I thus publicly express your 

 thanks and regrets, as well as my own, and those of your Council. 



The practice which has been recently introduced of stating as far 

 as possible at the conclusion of one meeting, the subjects of papers 

 to be read on the following Thursday, will, I have no doubt, be 

 found most useful, and can, I think, he accompanied by no draw- 

 backs. I am aware that the introduction of discussion on papers 

 after they have been read can hardly be expected to meet with uni- 

 versal concurrence. It may certainly be attended with some incon- 

 venience. It therefore appears to me to be indispensably necessary 

 that the President, or the Vice-President in the Chair, should have, 

 and exercise the absolute power, both of abstaining from an invitation 

 to discuss papers, which from their abstract nature, or from any other 

 cause are little calculated for discussion, and also of checking con- 

 versation when it becomes either intemperate and personal, incon- 

 veniently long, or in any other manner not desirable to be con- 

 tinued. So checked and guarded, I believe that it will give our 



