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List of Papers read. 



stranger, but who have, by many experiences, learnt to recognise Your 

 great worth, and have been led to the sure hope, that, under Your 

 gracious rule, the Nation will continue to hold the proud position which 

 it has gained under the guidance of Your beloved Mother. 



That Your Majest3 T 's reign may be long, happ}^, and glorious, and 

 that You may ever rule in the hearts as well as over the persons of a 

 loving, dutiful, and grateful people, is the earnest wish and ardent 

 prayer of 



Your Majesty's loyal and dutiful Subjects, 



The President, Council, and Fellows 



of the Royal Society of London. 



His Majesty's 'Gracious Reply. 



"I am much gratified by the warm expression of your loyalty and 

 affection, of your profound sympathy with our present grief, and of 

 your loving appreciation of the goodness and great qualities of my 

 dearly beloved mother. 



"I thank you for your dutiful good wishes, and I share your hope 

 that my reign also may be blessed by a continuous growth of my people 

 in enlightenment, refinement, and power for good. The intellectual 

 attainments and energies which your Society so conspicuously repre- 

 sents are among the most precious possessions of the nation as aids in 

 securing those high ends, and I remember with gratification the close 

 connection of the Society with its Royal Founder and my other prede- 

 cessors on this Throne, and the fact that I am a Fellow, as was also 

 my dear Father. 



"You may feel assured of my constant interest in and protection of 

 your work, and in token of my goodwill I shall be pleased to inscribe 

 my name as Patron in the Charter Book." 



A List of the Presents received was laid on the table, and thanks 

 ordered for them. 



The following Papers were read : — 



I. " The New Star in Perseus. — Preliminary Note." By Sir 

 Norman Lockyer, K.C.B., F.R.S. 

 II. "On the Structure and Affinities of Fossil Plants from the 

 Palaeozoic Rocks. IV. — The Seed-like Fructification of Lepido- 

 carpon, a Genus of Lycopodiaceous Cones from the Carboniferous 

 Formation." By Dr. D. H. Scott, F.R.S. 

 III. "A Preliminary Account of the Development of the Free-swim- 

 ming Nauplius of Leptodon hyalina (Lillj.)." By Dr. E. 

 Warren. 



