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I am sure I may be permitted to congratulate the Society on the accession to our list of one honoured name, of whom we may well be proud; and it is no disparagement to others, if I particularize Mr. Charles Darwin, the philosophic traveller, the acute observer, the accomplished and learned naturalist, and the author, amongst other inestimable works, of one of the most complete Monographies that has ever appeared on any group in the animal kingdom. It was principally on account of Mr. Darwin's Monograph of the Cirripedes that the Royal Society awarded to him the Royal Medal of last year, and I trust that we may hope for contributions to our Transactions from the same pen.