On the Foreign List, viz. Pierre Prevost, of Geneva. | Le Baron de Prony, of Paris.
Ceased to be Felloivs in default of their annual payments, viz.
Colonel Sir Andrew Leith Hay. 1 Charles Henry Oakes, Esq., M.A. John Augustus Lloyd, Esq. |
List of Admissions into the Royal Society since the last Anniver- sary (1838).
On the Home List, viz.
Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, Bart., M.P.
George Barker, Esq.
Beriah Botfield, Esq.
Lord Carrington.
Arthur Conolly, Esq. (Captain, Bengal Service.)
Charles Darwin, Esq., M.A.
Edward Davies Davenport, Esq.
Henry Mangles Denham (Com- mander, R.N.).
Richard Drew, Esq.
Arthur Farre, M.B.
Thomas William Fletcher, Esq.
William James Frodsham, Esq.
The Rev. Thomas Gaskin, M.A.
George Godwin, jun., Esq.
John Thomas Graves, Esq., M.A.
Edwin Guest, Esq.
George Gulliver, Esq.
James Orchard Halliwell, Esq.
Peter Hardy, Esq. James Heywood, Esq. John Hilton, Esq. John Hogg, Esq., M.A. The Rev. Philip Kelland, M.A. Gilbert Wakefield Mackmurdo, Esq.
The Rev. Samuel Roffy Maitland.
The Rev. Henry Mosely, M.A.
H. Alexander Ormsby (Lieute- nant, Indian Navy).
Lieut.-Col. William Reid, R.E.
Robert Rigg, Esq.
William Sharpey, M.D.
Clement Swanston, Esq.
James Joseph Sylvester, Esq.
The Venerable Charles Thorp, D.D.
The Rev. Charles Turnor, M.A. John Wesley Williams, Esq. James Yates, Esq., M.A.
On the Foreign List, viz.
Louis Agassiz.
Christopher Hansteen.
Carl. Fried. Philip von Martins.
Macedoine Melloni.
Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet.
Felix Savart.
The President then addressed the meeting as follows :
Gentlemen,
A year having now elapsed since you conferred upon me the highly honourable office of your President, it becomes my duty, in accordance with the example of my predecessors, to address you. The first and most agreeable part of my task is to express my feelings of gratitude to those Gentlemen whom you were pleased to select as my Council. I am most highly indebted to them for the zealous co-ope-
