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be investigates the operations of infinite power guided by infinite 
wisdom all low prejudices, all mean superstitions disappear from 
bis mind. He sees man an atom amidst atoms fixed upon a point 
in space, and yet modifying the laws that are around him by under- 
standing them ; and gaining, as it were, a kind of dominion over 
time and an empire in material space, and creating on a scale 
infinitely small a power seeming a sort of shadow or reflection of 
a creative energy, and which entitles him to the distinction of 
being made in the image of G-od and animated by a spark of the 
Divine mini.” * 
The following statement, in regard to the number of the present 
Fellows of the Society, has been drawn up 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, Bromley, Kent; John An- 
thony Froude, Esq., London; Thomas Henry 
Huxley, London; James Prescott Joule, LL.D., 
Cliffpoint, Higher Broughton, Manchester; William 
Lassell, Esq., Liverpool ; Rev. Dr Humphrey Lloyd, 
Dublin; William Hallowes Miller, LL.D., Cam- 
bridge ; Richard Owen, Esq., London ; Thomas 
Romney Robinson, D.D., Armagh; Lieut.-General 
Edward Sabine, R. A., London; Henry John Stephen 
Smith, Oxford ; George Gabriel Stokes, Esq., Cam- 
bridge; James Joseph Sylvester, LL.D., London; 
William Henry Fox Talbot, Esq., Lacock Abbey, 
Wiltshire; Alfred Tennyson, Esq., Freshwater, Isle 
of Wight. ........ 20 
Foreign — 
Claude Bernard, Paris; Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, 
Heidelberg ; Michael Eugene Chevreul, Paris ; 
James D. Dana, LL.D., Newhaven, Connecticut; 
Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, Berlin; Jean Baptiste 
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* Consolation in Travel, Works, vol. ix. p. 3G1. 
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