2S6 [July, 1843. 



NEW BUSINESS. 



Mr. George R. Gliddon informed the Academy that he had 

 recently received a letter from his father, John Gliddon, Esq. 

 U. S. Consul in Egypt, dated Cairo, 18th June, 1S43, ex- 

 pressing regret that the Egyptian Society had been unavoid- 

 ably obliged to delay the answers to the geological queries 

 addressed to them by a Committee of the Academy. These 

 queries had been submitted to a special committee of scientific 

 members, by whom it was discovered that they had been 

 met (though under different arrangement) in a dissertation 

 which Dr. Figari (a distinguished Italian naturalist, &c. and 

 member of the Society) is preparing to be read and presented 

 at the next general meeting of the Society, expected to take 

 place on the 1st of July, and which would be published 

 forthwith. Copies would be sent to the Academy with an 

 official communication. Mr. Gliddon also stated that a copy 

 of M. Linant's (chief engineer in the Pasha's service) Me- 

 moir on Lake Maris, just published by the Egyptian Society, 

 had been sent to the Academy, and would be presented as 

 soon as received. 



ELECTION. 



The Hon. and Rev. William Herbert, of Manchester, En- 

 gland, was elected a Correspondent of the Academy. 



