Report of the Annual Meeting

Earl Fitzwilliam, F.R.S.

Viscount Morpeth, F.G.S.

William Hatfeild, Esq., F.G.S.
The Hon. John Stuart Wortley, M.P. Sir David Brewster, K.H., F.R.S. Thomas Meynell, Esq., F.L.S.
Michael Faraday, Esq., D.C.L., F.R.S.
Rev. W. V. Harcourt, F.R.S...

The Earl of Hardwicke. The Bishop of Norwich. Rev. J. Graham, D.D. Rev. G. Ainslie, D.D. G. B. Airy, Esq., M.A., D.C.L., F.R.S. The Rev. Professor Sedgwick, M.A., F.R.S.

The Marquis of Winchester. The Earl of Yarborough, D.C.L....
Lord Ashburton, D.C.L. Viscount Palmerston, M.P..

SIR RODERICK IMPEY MURCHISON, G.C.St.S., F.R.S. Right Hon. Charles Shaw Lefevre, M.P..
SOUTHAMPTON, September 10, 1846.

Sir George T. Staunton, Bart., M.P., D.C.L., F.R.S.
The Lord Bishop of Oxford, F.R.S.

Professor Owen, M.D., F.R. S. Professor Powell, F.R.S.

SIR ROBERT HARRY INGLIS, Bart., D.C.L., F.R.S., The Vice-Chancellor of the University M.P. for the University of Oxford

OXFORD, June 23, 1847.

The Earl of Rosse, F.R.S. The Lord Bishop of Oxford, F.R.S. Thomas G. Bucknall Estcourt, Esq., D.C.L., M.P. for the University of Oxford. Very Rev. the Dean of Westminster, D.D., F.R.S... Professor Daubeny, M.D., F.R.S. The Rev. Prof. Powell, M.A., F.R.S.

The Marquis of Bute, K.T.

Viscount Adare, F.R.S.....
The MARQUIS OF NORTHAMPTON, President of the Sir H. T. Dela Beche, F.R.S., Pres. G.S....
Royal Society, &c.
The Very Rev. the Dean of Llandaff, F.R.S.
Lewis W. Dillwyn, Esq., F.R.S. W. R. Grove, Esq., F.R.S.
J. H. Vivian, Esq., M.P., F.R.S. The Lord Bishop of St. David'

SWANSEA, August 9, 1848.

The Earl of Harrowby. The Lord Wrottesley, F.R.S.
Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M.P., D.C.L., F.R.S..

The REV. T. R. ROBINSON, D.D., M.R.I.A., F.R.A.S. Charles Darwin, Esq., M.A., F.R.S., Sec. G.S..
BIRMINGHAM, September 12, 1849.

SIR DAVID BREWSTER, K.H., LL.D., F.R.S. L. & E., Principal of the United College of St. Salvator and St.) Leonard, St. Andrews..

EDINBURGH, July 21, 1850.

Professor Faraday, D.C.L., F.R.S.

Sir David Brewster, K.H., LL.D., F.R.S. Rev. Prof. Willis, M.A., F.R.S.

(Right Hon. the Lord Provost of Edinburgh
The Earl of Cathcart, K.C.B., F.R.S.E.........
The Earl of Rosebery, K.T., D.C.L., F.R.S..
Right Hon. David Boyle (Lord Justice-General), F.R.S.E.
General Sir Thomas M. Brisbane, Bart., D.C.L., F.R.S., Pres. R.S.E..
Very Rev. John Lee, D.D., V.P.R.S.E., Principal of the University of
Edinburgh. Professor W. P. Alison, M.D., V.P.R.S.E.
Professor J. D. Forbes, F.R.S., Sec. R.S.E.

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Rev. W. Scoresby, LL.D., F.R.S. William West, Esq.

PRESIDENTS.

VICE-PRESIDENTS.

The Lord Rendlesham, M.P. The Lord Bishop of Norwich.

GEORGE BIDDELL AIRY, Esq., D.C.L., F.R.S., Astro- Rev. Professor Sedgwick, M.A., F.R.S.. nomer Royal......

IPSWICH, July 2, 1851.

Rev. Professor Henslow, M.A., F.L.S.. Sir John P. Boileau, Bart., F.R.S. J. C. Cobbold, Esq., M.P.

Charles May, Esq., F.R.A.S. Dillwyn Sims, Esq.

George Arthur Biddell, Esq. Sir William F. F. Middleton, Bart. George Ransome, Esq., F.L.S.

T. B. Western, Esq.
The Earl of Enniskillen, D.C.L. F.R.S..
The Earl of Rosse, M.R.I.A., Pres. R.S......

COLONEL EDWARD SABINE, Royal Artillery, Treas. & Sir Henry T. DelaBeche, F.R.S..
V.P. of the Royal Society.

BELFAST, September 1, 1852.

Rev. Edward Hincks, D.D., M.R.I.A..
Rev. P. S. Henry, D.D., Pres. Queen's College, Belfast
Rev. T. R. Robinson, D.D., Pres. R.I.A., F.R.A.S..
Professor G. G. Stokes, F.R.S. Professor Stevelly, LL.D.

The Earl of Carlisle, F.R.S. Lord Londesborough, F.R.S.
Professor Faraday, D.C.L., F.R.S.

Rev. Prof. Sedgwick, M.A., F.R.S..
Charles Frost, Esq., F.S.A., Pres. of the Hull Lit. and Philos. Society...
William Spence, Esq., F.R.S. Lieut.-Col. Sykes, F.R.S........

Professor Wheatstone, F.R.S..

The Lord Wrottesley, M.A., F. R.S., F.R.A.S.

Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton, Bart., M.P., F.R.S., F.G.S.

Professor Owen, M.D., LL.Ď., F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S.

Rev. Professor Whewell, D.D., F.R.S., Hon. M.R.I.A., F.G.S., Master of Joseph Dickinson, M.D., F.R.S. Trinity College, Cambridge.

William Lassell, Esq., F.R.S.L. & E., F.R.A.S.............

Joseph Brooks Yates, F.S.A., F.R.G.S.

The Very Rev. Principal Macfarlane, D.D.

Sir William Jardine, Bart., F.R.S.E.

Sir Charles Lyell, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S.

James Smith, Esq., F.R.S. L. & E.
Walter Crum, Esq., F.R.S..

Thomas Graham, Esq., M.A., F.R.S., Master of the Royal Mint.
Professor William Thomson, M.A., F.R.S.

The Earl of Ducie, F.R.S., F.G.S...

CHARLES G. B. DAUBENY, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., Pro- The Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol fessor of Botany in the University of Oxford

CHELTENHAM, August 6, 1856.

Sir Roderick I. Murchison, G.C.St.S., D.C.L., F.R.S... Thomas Barwick Lloyd Baker, Esq.

The Rev. Francis Close, M.A...........

The Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of Dublin..
The Provost of Trinity College, Dublin..
The Marquis of Kildare.

Lord Talbot de Malahide

The Lord Chancellor of Ireland

The Lord Chief Baron, Dublin ......

Sir William R. Hamilton, LL.D., F.R.A.S., Astronomer Royal of Ireland Lieut.-Colonel Larcom, R.E., LL.D., F.R.S...

Richard Griffith, Esq., LL.D., M.R.I.A., F.R.S.E., F.G.S.

RICHARD OWEN, M.D., D.C.L.,V.P.R.S.,F.L.S.,F.G.S.,
Superintendent of the Natural History Departments of
the British Museum ........
LEEDS, September 22, 1858.

The Lord Monteagle, F.R.S.

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The Lord Viscount Goderich, M.P., F.R.G.S..
The Right Hon. M. T. Baines, M.A., M.P...
Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton, Bart., M.P., F.R.S., F.G.S...
The Rev. W. Whewell, D.D., F.R.S., Hon. M.R.I.A., F.G.S., F.R.A.S.,
Master of Trinity College, Cambridge

James Garth Marshall, Esq., M.A., F.G.S...

R. Monckton Milnes, Esq., D.C.L., M.P., F.R.G.S.

Rev. Thomas Hincks, B.A.
W. Sykes Ward, Esq., F.C.S.
Thomas Wilson, Esq., M.A.

Sir John F. W. Herschel, Bart., M.A., D.C.L., F.R.S...
Sir David Brewster, K.H., D.C.L., F.R.S..

Sir Roderick I. Murchison, G.C.St.S., D.C.L., F.R.S.
The Rev. W. V. Harcourt, M.A., F.R.S...
The Rev. T. R. Robinson, D.D., F.R.S.

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A. Thomson, Esq., LL.D., F.R.S., Convener of the County of Aberdeen..

(The Earl of Derby, K.G., P.C., D.C.L., Chancellor of the Univ. of Oxford..
The Rev. F. Jeune, D.C.L., Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford
The Duke of Marlborough, D.C.L., F.G.S., Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire
The Earl of Rosse, K.P., M.A., F.R.S., F.R.A.S.

The Lord Bishop of Oxford, D.D., F.R.S......

The Very Rev. A. G. Liddell, D.D., Dean of Christ Church, Oxford
Professor Daubeny, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S......

Professor Acland, M.D.,F.R.S. Professor Donkin, M.A.,F.R.S.,F.R.A.S.

The Earl of Ellesmere, F.R.G.S..

The Lord Stanley, M.P., D.C.L., F.R.G.S.

The Lord Bishop of Manchester, D.D., F.R.S., F.G.S.

Sir Philip de M. Grey Egerton, Bart., M.P., F.R.S., F.G.S..

Sir Benjamin Heywood, Bart., F.R.S..

Thomas Bazley, Esq., M.P..

James Aspinall Turner, Esq., M.P.

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James Prescott Joule, Esq., LL.D., F.R.S., Pres. Lit. & Phil. Soc. Manchester....

Professor E. Hodgkinson, F.R.S., M.R.I.A., M.I.C.E.......
Joseph Whitworth, Esq., F.R.S., M.I.C.E.

The Rev. the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
The Very Rev. Harvey Goodwin, D.D., Dean of Ely.
The Rev. W. Whewell, D.D., F.R.S., Master of Trinity College, Cambridge
The Rev. Professor Sedgwick, M.A., D.C.L., F.R.S.
Rev. J. Challis, M.A., F.R.S...

G. B. Airy, Esq., M.A., D.C.L., F.R.S., Astronomer Royal
Professor G. G. Stokes, M.A., D.C.L., Sec. R.S.
Professor J. C. Adams, M.A., D.C.L., F.R.S., Pres. C.P.S.

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Professor J. Nicol, F.R.S.E., F.G.S. Professor Fuller, M.A. John F. White, Esq.

George Rolleston, M.D., F.L.S.
H. J. S. Smith, Esq., M.A., F.C.S.
George Griffith, Esq., M.A., F.C.S.

R. D. Darbishire, Esq., B.A., F.G.S.
Alfred Neild, Esq.

Arthur Ransome, M.A., Esq.
Professor H. E. Roscoe, B.A.

Professor C. C. Babington, M.A., F.R.S., F.L.S.
Professor G. D. Liveing, M.A.
The Rev. N. M. Ferrers, M.A.

VICE-PRESIDENTS.

Sir Walter C. Trevelyan, Bart., M.A.

Sir Charles Lyell, LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.S., F.G.S.
Hugh Taylor, Esq., Chairman of the Coal Trade
Isaac Lowthian Bell, Esq., Mayor of Newcastle...

Nicholas Wood, Esq., President of the Northern Institute of Mining En-
gineers

Rev. Temple Chevallier, B.D., F.R.A.S.

William Fairbairn, Esq., LL.D., F.R.S..

The Right Hon. the Earl of Cork and Orrery, Lord Lieutenant of Somersetshire

The Most Noble the Marquis of Bath

The Right Hon. Earl Nelson

The Right Hon. Lord Portman.

The Very Reverend the Dean of Hereford

The Venerable the Archdeacon of Bath

W. Tite, Esq., M.P., F.R. S., F.G.S., F.S.A.
A. E. Way, Esq., M.P.

Francis H. Dickinson, Esq..

[W. Sanders, Esq. F.R.S., F.G.S..

The Right Hon. the Earl of Lichfield, Lord-Lieutenant of Staffordshire..
The Right Hon. the Earl of Dudley

The Right Hon. Lord Leigh, Lord-Lieutenant of Warwickshire
The Right Hon. Lord Lyttelton, Lord-Lieutenant of Worcestershire.
The Right Hon. Lord Wrottesley, M.A., D.C.L., F.R.S., F.R.A.S.
The Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Worcester.
The Right Hon. C. B. Adderley, M.P.
William Scholefield, Esq., M.P.

J. T. Chance, Esq.

F. Osler, Esq., F.R.S.

The Rev. Charles Evans, M.A.

His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, Lord-Lieutenant of Derbyshire.
His Grace the Duke of Rutland, Lord-Lieutenant of Leicestershire
The Right Hon. Lord Belper, Lord-Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire..
The Right Hon. J. E. Denison, M.P.......

J. C. Webb, Esq., High-Sheriff of Nottinghamshire
Thomas Graham, Esq., F.R.S., Master of the Mint..
Joseph Hooker, M.D,, F.R.S., F.L.S...

John Russell Hinds, Esq., F.R.S., F.R.A.S.

T. Close, Esq..

The Right Hon. The Earl of Airlie, K.T.

The Right Hon. The Lord Kinnaird, K.T..
Sir John Ogilvy, Bart., M.P.

Sir Roderick I. Murchison, Bart., K.C.B., LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S., &c...
Sir David Baxter, Bart.

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Sir David Brewster, D.C.L., F.R.S., Principal of the University of Edin-
burgh.....

James D. Forbes, LL.D., F.R.S., Principal of the United College St. Sal-
vator and St. Leonards, University of St. Andrews

J. Henderson, Esq.

John Austin Lake Gloag, Esq.
Patrick Anderson, Esq.

BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE.

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