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On the Foreign List. 



C. C. J. Jacobi. I Jens Christian Oersted. 



Henry Frederick Link. | Heinrich Christian Schumacher. 



Defaulters. 



E. H. Baily, Esq., R.A. | E. R. DanieU, Esq. 



Withdrawn. 



Sir Howard Elphinstone, Bart. | Thomas Jones. 

 Rev. F. W. Hope. | 



Election Void. 

 John Russell Hind, Esq. 



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

 versary (1850). 



On the Home List. 



His Grace the Duke of Argyll. 

 Charles Cardale Babington, Esq. 

 Thomas Snow Beck, M.D. 

 Charles James Fox Bunbury, Esq. 

 George T. Doo, Esq. 

 Edward B. Eastwick, Esq. 

 Captain Charles M. Elliot. 

 Captain Robert FitzRoy, R.N. 



John Russell Hind, Esq. 

 Augustus William Hofmann, Esq. 

 Thomas Henry Huxley. 

 William Edmund Logan, Esq. 

 James Paget, Esq. 

 George Gabriel Stokes, Esq. 

 William Thomson, Esq. 

 Augustus V. Waller, M.D. 



The President then addressed the Meeting as follows : — 

 Gentlemen, 



The year that is passed, though not remarkable for any very start- 

 ling discovery, has contributed a full average to the advance of 

 human knowledge : in all directions there has been steady progress, 

 new facts springing up in rapid succession, the fruits of inquiries 

 carried on with perhaps more energy, with more system, and upon 

 a greater scale than at any previous epoch in the history of science. 

 Our continental neighbours, happily exempt from internal troubles, 

 have been free to pursue their scientific labours ; and our brethren 

 in America, v/ith that energy which is daily winning for them such 

 signal triumphs in the arts of peace and civilization, though later in 

 the field, yet fresh and full of hope, have taken a distinguished place. 



I need hardly remind you that at home the indications of active 

 progress are no less striking. Here we have had an unusual number 

 of papers, and the size of the last volume of the Transactions is evi- 

 dence that a large proportion were of sterling worth. Many also 

 have expressed their readiness to undertake new researches on re- 



