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Pearson, Rev. William, LL.D. 

 Pocock, Sir George, Bart. 

 Pollock, Sir David. 

 Sleath, Rev. John, D.D. 

 Solly, Samuel, Esq. 



Sumner, George Holme, Esq. 

 Towneley, Peregrine Edward, 

 Esq. 



Turner, Samuel, Esq. 



Wilmot, Sir John Eardley, Bart. 



On the Foreign List. 

 Alexandre Brongniart. 



Defaulters. 



William Burge, Esq. | William Hutton, Esq. 



List of Fellows elected into the Royal Society since the last Anni- 

 versary (1846). 



On the Home List. 



Acland, Henrv Wentworth Dyke, 

 M.D. 



Alexander, Henry, Esq. 

 Back, Sir George, Capt. R.N. 

 Baly, William, M.D. 

 Brooke, Charles, Esq. 

 Burrows, George, M.D. 

 Christie, James Robert, Esq. 

 Dwarris, Sir Fortunatus. 

 Ellis, Thomas Flower, Esq. 

 Hall, William Hutcheson, Capt. 

 R.N. 



Hardwicke, Earl of. 



Hooker, Joseph Dalton, M.D. 



Maitland, John Gorham, Esq. 



Morpeth, Right Hon. Viscount. 



Mountcashel, Earl of. 



Percy, John. M.D. 



Plowden, William Henry Chiche- 



ley, Esq. 

 Rudge, Edward John, Esq. 

 Russell, Right Hon. Lord John. 

 Simpkinson, Sir John Augustus 



Francis. 

 Webster, Thomas, Esq. 

 Wellington, The Duke of. 



On the Foreign List. 

 Le Verrier, U. J. Mons. 



The President then addressed the Meeting as follows : — 

 Gentlemen, 



Since our last Anniversary, your Council have been much occupied 

 w'ith anxious deliberation on many subjects of great importance to 

 our Society : among these, the one that chiefly interests science is 

 perhaps the question, how we may most completely secure the proofs 

 of priority in the communication of scientific discovery. For this 

 purpose we have framed rules which I hope may be found sufficient 

 for the attainment of our object. 



I regret extremely that it is not in my power to announce to you 

 that any tidings have reached us from our gallant countrymen who 

 have engaged in the arduous enterprise of again exploring the icy 

 regions of the Arctic Seas. There is no reason indeed for our feel- 



