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heartfelt thanks. I soon found that what I looked forward to with 

 apprehension — the Council meetings, and as many of the ordinary 

 meetings as I could attend, during my University session in Glasgow 

 — were the reverse of fatiguing ; and I am only sorry that I have 

 been so many times obliged to forego the pleasure of performing that 

 part of my presidential duty. I look back otherwise with unmixed 

 pleasure to all the meetings at which I have presided, and my sole 

 regret now is — I cannot disguise it, and it is a very keen regret — 

 that these five years are passed, and that to-day I cease to be your 

 President. I thank you all, my colleagues of the Royal Society, for 

 electing me five times to be your President, for forgiving me all my 

 short-comings, and for the inestimable benefit which you have 

 conferred on me by giving me your friendship. 



The Statutes relating to the election of Council and Officers were 

 then read, and Mr. H. Brown and Professor McLeod having been, 

 with the consent of the Society, nominated Scrutators, the votes of 

 the Fellows present were taken, and the following were declared duly 

 elected as Council and Officers for the ensuing year : — 



President.-— Sir Joseph Lister, Bart., F.R.C.S., D.C.L. 



Treasurer.— Sir John Evans, K.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D. 



q , . f Professor Michael Poster, M.A., M.D. 



secretaries. | ^ w M A ? D L 



Foreign Secretary. — Edward Prankland, D.C.L., LL.D. 



Other Members of the Council. 



William Crookes, F.C.S. ; Sir Joseph Payrer, K. C.S.I. ; Lazarus 

 Fletcher, M.A. ; Walter Holbrook Gaskell, M.D. ; William Huggins, 

 D.C.L. ; The Lord Kelvin, D.C.L. ; Prof. Alexander B. W. Kennedy, 

 LL.D. ; Professor Horace Lamb, M.A. ; Professor Edwin Ray 

 Lankester, M.A. ; Prof. Charles Lapworth, LL.D. ; Major Percy 

 Alexander MacMahon, R.A. ; Prof. John Henry Poynting, D.Sc. ; 

 Professor Arthur William Riicker, M.A. ; Osbert Salvin, M.A, ; 

 Prof. Harry Marshall Ward, D.Sc. ; Adml. William James Lloyd 

 Wharton, C.B. 



The thanks of the Society were given to the Scrutators. 



