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John Edward Gray, Esq., F.R.S., President. 
J. Reynolds, Esq., Treasurer. | Daniel Cooper, Esq., Curator. 
G. E. Dennes, Esq., Secretary. 
Other members of the Council — 
John Anderson, Esq., M.E.S. 
Francis Bossey, M.D. 
W. M. Chatterley, Esq. 
J. E. Children, Esq., V.P.R.S., &c. 
Joseph Freeman, Esq. 
T. W. Greene, Esq., B.C.L. F.H.S. 
Charles Johnson, Esq. 
H. A. Meeson, M.D. 
William Ord, M.D. 
D. C. Macreight, M.D. F.L.S 
W. H. White, Esq. 
The President then appointed the two following gentle- 
men as Vice-Presidents, 
J. G. CHILDREN, Esq., V.P.R.S., &c. | Dr. D. C. MACREIGHT, F.L.S., &c. 
The following Address was then delivered by the Presi- 
dent : — 
Gentlemen, 
It may be expected that I should, on this occasion, 
make a few remarks on the progress and prospects of the 
Society, as you have done me the honour to elect me 
a third titne as your President, although I should have 
wished the choice had fallen on one who was more ac- 
tively engaged in Botany, and who could devote more of his 
time to your services; though, at the same time, allow me to 
say that there are few persons more desirous of making him- 
self useful to this and other institutions devoted to education 
in all its multifarious branches than myself. From the re- 
port read by the Secretary, I am glad to find the Society 
has been gradually and steadily increasing, the number of 
members amounting to one hundred, of which forty-two are 
resident, thirty-four corresponding and twenty-four foreign, 
forty-seven of which have been elected since the last anni- 
versary. The Curator in his report has referred to the great 
additions which have been made to the Herbarium, both 
British and Foreign, during the past year; and he informs 
me that the number of British plants received this year con- 
sists of eighteen thousand five hundred and ninety-two spe- 
cimens, containing one thousand and fifty species, four hun- 
dred and twenty-two genera, and ninety-eight natural orders. 
