Airy's address to the Royal Astronomical Society, including subjects such as Baily's biography of Flamsteed; the position of the ecliptic, 1835; the mass of Jupiter, 1835-1836; Rosenberger's medal; E. Dunkin's Spring Level; the parallax of Alpha Lyrae; the First Cambridge Catalogue; examination of Boguslowski's claims to be an Associate of the Royal Astronomical Society; the determination of the orbits of comets from observations; P.A. Hansen's physical astronomy; the regulation of the equatorials clockwork mechanism; the total solar eclipse of 7 July 1842, with four sketches; the discovery of Neptune; the reductions of the Cambridge observations of Halley's Comet; a new form of star correction; and P.A. Hansen's inequalities of the Moon.