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little of its deep oceans, how little of ne great atmosphere which 
surrounds us! And even if we knew and understood all and every 
part of our own habitation, what is that, when we think what a 
tiny atom that habitation is in the great system of the universe, 
seen and unseen! 
The true man of science, knowing all this, is humble-minded, 
not arrogant or supercilious; diffident, not presumptuous; forbear- 
ing, not intolerant. 
If these are the qualities which men of science possess and 
show, whilst prosecuting their studies and researches, they will 
secure favour for themselves and for their noble pursuits. They 
will be accepted and respected as the expounders of the grand and 
beautiful laws by which God governs the universe — laws , a know- 
ledge and a right application of which will assuredly conduce, 
alike to the prosperity of nations and to the happiness of the 
human race. 
The following statement in regard to the number of the present 
Fellows of the Society was laid on the table by the Secretary : — 
1. Honorary Fellows — 
Royal Personage — 
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, . . 1 
British Subjects — 
John Couch Adams, Esq., Cambridge; Sir George 
Biddell Airy, Greenwich; Thomas Andrews, M.D., 
Belfast (Queen’s College); Thomas Carlyle, Esq., 
London; Arthur Cayley, Esq., Cambridge; Charles 
Darwin, Esq., Down, Broomley, Kent; John An- 
thony Froude, Esq., London; James Prescott Joule, 
LL.D., Cliffpoint, Higher Broughton, Manchester; 
William Lassell, Esq., Liverpool; Rev. Dr Hum- 
phrey Lloyd, Dublin; William Hallowes Miller, 
LL.D., Cambridge; Richard Owen, Esq., London; 
Lieut. -General Edward Sabine, R.A., London; 
George Gabriel Stokes, Esq., Cambridge; James 
Joseph Sylvester, LL.D., London; William Henry 
Fox Talbot, Esq., Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire; Alfred 
Tennyson, Esq., Freshwater, Isle of Wight, . . 17 
Carry forward, 
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