858 



Withdrawn. 

 Very Rev. John Merewether. 

 Defaulter. 

 John Green Crosse, M.D. 



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

 versary (1848). 



On the Home List. 



His Grace the Archbishop of 



Canterbury. 

 The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop 



of Manchester. 

 The Right Hon. Sir Francis 



Baring. 



The Right Hon. Thomas Ba- 



bington Macaulay. 

 John Couch Adams. 

 Thomas Andrews, M.D. 

 Robert Alfred Cloyne Austen, 



Esq. 



Charles Barry, Esq. 

 Benjamin Collins Brodie, Esq. 

 John Dalrymple, Esq. 

 James Glaisher, Esq. 

 Sir Robert Kane, M.D. 

 William Lassell, Esq. 

 Henry Beaumont Leeson, M.D. 

 Andrew Crombie Ramsay, Esq. 

 John Scott Russell, Esq. 

 Francis Sibson, M.D. 

 Robert Stephenson, Esq. 

 Lieut.-Col. Philip Yorke. 



The President then addressed the Meeting as follows: — 

 Gentlemen, 



For. some years there seemed to have been an increasing desire that 

 the important business transacted on the 30th of November should 

 be transferred to a meeting in June. 



Strong reasons were urged in favour of the change. It was said 

 that Vvhen St. Andrew's day was selected, the London season com- 

 menced much earlier than it now does, and that it was then probably 

 the time when London was most full, and when there was reason to 

 expect the largest attendance ; that now, on the contrary, the Fel- 

 lows who reside a part of the year in the country, are almost all out 

 of towm in November, and that practically therefore the burden and 

 responsibility of very important duties is thrown upon a section of 

 the Society, that portion of the Fellows who permanently reside in 

 London ; that in aw^arding the Medals in November, just after the 

 vacation, there was this great inconvenience, that very nice ques- 

 tions often arising in vi^eighing the conflicting claims of different in- 

 dividuals, the Members of Council were under the disadvantage of 

 having had but few opportunities of mutually conferring on the sub- 

 ject, while they were without that assistance, which, if the Medals 

 were awarded in June, they might derive from hearing the opinions 



