PROCEEDINGS OF THE NUMISMATIC SOCIETY. 1838-39. THE PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS, Ir now becomes my duty to address the Members of this Society, assembled for the third time at their annual meeting, on its state and prospects: and I am happy in being able to look back upon the past with agreeable reminiscences; and to observe that our anticipations of success have been progressively realising, and that we have attained as great a degree of prosperity as could reasonably have been expected during the three years of our existence as a public body. I now take my leave of you, as your President, after having devoted my humble efforts to the advancement of the Society and its objects, during that period, with the sincere wish that this advancement may be still more accelerated under the auspices of my worthy and able successor in the Numismatic chair. In my first anniversary address I adverted generally and briefly to the fundamental points and epochs of numismatic history; in the second, as generally to the |