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proceeded to the election of Officers for the ensuing year, when 

 the following list was delivered in by the scrutineers : — viz. 



President: William Henry Fitton, M.D., F.R.S. 



Vice-Presidents: Arthur Aikin, Esq. F.L.S. ; John Bostock, 

 M.D., F.R.S. ; Rev. W. D. Conybeare, F.R.S. ; Rev. Adam Sedg- 

 wick, F.R.S., Woodwardian Professor, Cambridge. 



Secretaries: W.J. Broderip, Esq. F.L.S. ; R. I. Murchison, 

 Esq. F.R.S. 



Foreign Secretary : Henry Heuland, Esq. 



Treasurer : John Taylor, Esq. F.R.S. 



Council: Henry Thomas de la Beche, Esq. F.R. & L.S. ; J. E. 

 Bicheno, Esq. Sec. L.S.; Davies Gilbert, Esq. M.P., V.P.R.S. ; 

 George , Bellas Greenough, Esq. F.R. & L.S. ; John Frederick 

 William Herschel, Esq. Sec. R.S. ; Armand Levy, Esq. ; Charles 

 Lyell, Esq. F.R.S.; William Hasledine Pepys, Esq. F.R.S.; 

 Rev. John Honey wood Randolph ; Charles Stokes, Esq. F.R.S. & 

 L.S. ; J. F. Vandercom, Esq. ; Henry Warburton, Esq. M.P., 

 F.R.S.; Thomas Webster, Esq.; Thomas Young, Esq. 



April 6. The Rev. J. MacEnery, of Torquay, was elected a 

 Fellow of the Society. 



Jpril 20. A Paper was read giving An account of the discovery 

 of a number of fossil bones of Bears ^ in the grotto of Osselles^ or 

 Quingey, near Besanqon^ in France^ by the Rev. Dr. Buckland, 

 Professor of Geology in the University of Oxford. 



The authour visited this cave in October 1826, for the purpose 

 of applying to it the method of investigation, which his experience 

 in other caverns had taught him to adopt with success in the pur- 

 suit of fossil bones. 



The grotto of Osselles is of vast extent, nearly a quarter of a 

 mile in length, and made up of a succession of more than thirty 

 vaults, or chambers, connected together by narrow passages, and 

 running almost horizontally into the body of a mountain of Jura 

 limestone, on the left bank of the Doubs near Besancon. 



The only entrance to the grotto is by an irregular aperture 

 about the size of a common door, in the slope of the hill about 60 

 feet from the river. The abundance and beauty of the stalactite 

 in many parts of this cavern, have rendered it one of the most 



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