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under circumstances which would have repressed the exertions of a 

 less ardent inquirer into truth, the Council have considered Mr. 

 Newport as highly deserving the distinction they have conferred 

 upon him by the award of the Royal Medal for Animal Physiology in 

 the present year. 



The Council propose to give one of the Royal Medals in the year 

 1839 to the most important unpublished paper in Astronomy com- 

 municated to the Royal Society for insertion in their Transactions 

 after the present date, and prior to the termination of the Sessions 

 in June 1839. 



The Council propose to give one of the Royal Medals in the year 

 1839, to the most important unpublished paper in Physiology, com- 

 municated for insertion in their Transactions after the present date, 

 and prior to the termination of the Sessions in June 1839. 



The Statutes relating to the election of Council and Officers were 

 then read by the Secretary j and Davies Gilbert, Esq., and Francis 

 Kiernan, Esq., being nominated by the President, with the appro- 

 bation of the Meeting, Scrutators to assist the Secretaries in ex- 

 amining the Balloting Lists, the Votes of the Fellows present were 

 collected. 



The Ballot being taken, the Scrutators reported the following as 

 the result : 



President: His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, K.G. — 

 Treasurer: Francis Baily, Esq. — Secretaries: Peter Mark Roget, 

 M.D. ; John George Children, Esq. — Foreign Secretary: Charles 

 Konig, Esq. 



Other Members of the Council : George Biddell Airy, Esq., A.R. j 

 William Allen, Esq. ; John Bostock, M.D. j The Earl of Burlington ; 

 Samuel Hunter Christie, Esq.; Viscount Cole, M. P.; Joseph Henry 

 Green, Esq. ; George Bellas Greenough, Esq. ; William Lawrence, 

 Esq. j John Lindley, Phil. D. ; John William Lubbock, Esq., M.A. ; 

 Rev. George Peacock, M.A. ; William Hasledine Pepys, Esq. ; Rev. 

 Adam Sedgwick, M.A.; William Henry Smyth, Capt. R.N. ; Wil- 

 liam Henry Fox Talbot, Esq. 



The Thanks of the Society were then voted to the Scrutators for 

 their trouble in assisting at the election. 



The following is the statement with respect to the Receipts and Pay- 

 ments of the Society during the preceding year, which was laid on 

 the table by the Treasurer. 



