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REPORT OE THE COUNCIL FOR 1863. 
the Society in the early days of its existence. The Council 
have also to record the death of one of the Foreign Honorary 
Members of the Society, namely, Professor Louis Albert Necker, 
of Geneva, a man distinguished both as a member of a family 
which has for four generations furnished occupants to profes¬ 
sorial chairs in Geneva, and as an accomplished Geologist and 
Physicist. Professor Necker died at Portree, in the Isle of 
Skye, on the 20th November, 1861, at the age of 76. 
The Council propose Sir Charles Lyell for election by the 
Meeting as an Honorary Member. It will he unnecessary for 
the Council to say anything in support of this proposition. 
Equally distinguished as an original observer, and as a general- 
izer of the great mass of geological facts, Sir Charles Lyell 
must always stand in the first rank of British Geologists, and 
it will he no small honor for this Society to enrol his name in 
its list of Honorary Members. 
The Council propose Robert Denison, Esq., as a Vice- 
President, in the room of William Procter, Esq., M. D., who 
retires from that office. They also propose the re-election of 
Joseph Wilkinson, Esq., as a Member of Council, in accordance 
with the second Resolution passed at the last Annual Meeting; 
and as New Members of Council, the Rev. Thomas Myers, 
W. C. Anderson, Esq., and William Procter, Esq,, M. D., in 
place of Robert Davies, Esq., F.S. A., John Ford, Esq., and the 
Rev. W. E. Harrison, who retire by rotation. 
