PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE ROYAL SOCIETY. 



. 1838. No. 34. 



June 21, 1838. 

 FRANCIS BALLY, Esq., V.P. and Treas., in the Chair. 

 The Treasurer announced from the Chair that a deputation of the 

 Society, consisting of His Royal Highness the President, the Vice- 

 Presidents, Treasurer, Secretaries, and other Members of the Council, 

 waited yesterday on Her Majesty, for the purpose of receiving Her 

 Majesty's signature in the Charter-book of the Society, as Patroness 

 of the Royal Society, when Her Majesty was graciously pleased to 

 inscribe her name accordingly ; on which occasion His Royal High- 

 ness made the following address : 



" May it please your Majesty, 



" In obedience to your gracious Commands, the President and 

 the Council of the Royal Society for the promotion of Natural 

 Knowledge noAV appear in your Royal presence, humbly to 

 tender the register of its Members for the insertion of your au- 

 gust signature. 



"Our very name and the recollection of our first institution 

 prompt and encourage us to look up to Your Majesty as our 

 Patron and Protector ; and which, by this especial act of your 

 favour, will confirm to the Society the assurance so graciously 

 communicated to us, in your name, by the Secretary of State 

 for the Home Department, in reply to the dutiful Address we 

 had the honour to present to your Majesty on your accession. 



" Permit me. Most Gracious Sovereign, to avail myself of 

 this opportunity to express to your Majesty, in the name and 

 on the behalf of the Fellows of the Royal Society, their gra- 

 titude for your munificent grant of two Gold Medals annually, 

 for the encouragement of Science in its different branches ; and 

 more especially for allowing the Council so to alter for the pre- 

 sent year the statute regulating the distribution of them, as to 

 render it available and conformable to the view for which it was 

 framed. 



" Peace, Navigation and Commerce, are as necessary to the 

 growth of Literature, as to the intercourse with the Natural 

 World. 



" Of these blessings we were already in possession when 

 Your Majesty ascended the Throne of your Ancestors. That 

 such may continue to exist and thrive in this happy country during 

 a longj prosperous, and useful reign, with every other earthly 



