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Anniversary Meeting. 



[Nov. 30, 



PSOFESSOE MlLLEB, 



As Dr. Mayer's health and the inclemency of the weather, combined 

 •with the length of the journey, deprive us of the pleasure of his presence 

 at our Meeting, I will request you to transmit this Medal to him, and with 

 it the assurance of our cordial respect and regard. 



The Council has awarded a Eoyal Medal to Dr. John Stenhouse, F.E.S., 

 for his researches on the Lichens and their proximate constituents and 

 derivatives, including erythrite, and for his researches on the action of 

 charcoal in purifying air. 



De. Stexhottse, 



I have great pleasure in delivering to you this Medal, awarded to you 

 by the Eoyal Society for the long, laborious, and valuable researches with 

 which from time to time you have enriched our Transactions. 



The Council has awarded a Eoyal Medal to Mr. George Busk, F.E.S., 

 for his researches in Zoology, Physiology, and Comparative Anatomy. 



Me. Busk, 



I present you with this Medal in testimony of the appreciation by the 

 Eoyal Society of the results of your researches in Zoology, Physiology, and 

 Comparative Anatomy. 



In conclusion, I desire to avail myself of this occasion to express my 

 warmest acknowledgments to the Fellows of the Society for the kind con- 

 sideration which I have received from them at all times and in all circum- 

 stances, and, in particular, for their attendance at, and thereby their sup- 

 port of, the President's soirees, in which I have attempted to follow in the 

 footsteps of nry predecessors. Since the date of Sir Joseph Banks's Presi- 

 dency, at the close of the last century, it has been regarded as the privilege 

 of the President to receive the Fellows, either at his own house or at that 

 of the Society, together with others whom he might think it would be 

 agreeable to them to meet. There has thus been afforded to persons 

 engaged in mechanical or other inventions, auxiliary to science or other- 

 wise connected therewith, a convenient opportunity for the exhibition 

 and discussion of their various apparatus. The soirees have also been de- 

 scribed, and I believe justly so, as affording suitable opportunities for 

 the interchange of kindly feeling and good companionship between the 

 President and the Fellows. I may venture to say that I have found 

 them thoroughly so in the ten years during which I have had the honour 

 of the Presidency ; and I beg to express my grateful acknowledgments 

 accordingly to the Fellows, collectively and individually. 



