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TWELFTH MEETING. 



Royal Institution. — May 2, 1853. 



JOSEPH DICKINSON, M.D., F.L.S., &c., President, in the Chair. 



At an Extraordinary Meeting, held this evening, " to consider the 

 alternative of raising the subscription, or of giving up the publication of 

 the Society's Proceedings," 

 ^ It was resolved that the Subscription be not raised ; and also that 

 the pubUcation of the Society's Proceedings be continued. 



The Rev. J. W. Milner, M.A., was elected an Ordinal^ Member. 



The Secretary stated that since the last meeting the following 

 invitations had been received, viz : — 



From the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, inviting the 

 members to attend a Day Meeting of that Society, to be held at the 

 Royal Institution, on Thui-sday, May 5th, at one o'clock. 



From the Chemists' Association, inviting the members and their 

 friends to the Exhibition by VV. E. Staite, Esq., of the Electric Light, 

 at the Royal Institution, on Friday, April 29th. 



Resolved unanimously, 



" That the thanks of the Society be presented to the several Societies 

 for their invitations." 



Dr. J. B. Edwards exhibited photographs of microscopic objects taken 

 by the electric light by means of the collodion process. 



Dr. W. Ihne exhibited facsimiles of the manuscript oration of Hes- 

 perides for Lycophron, &c., lately published by tlie Cambridge Univer- 

 sity. 



Mr. J. T. TowsoN stated, that so far from it being the fact that there 

 were exceptions to the rule, that the compasses in iron vessels suffered im- 

 portant disturbance on passing from the N. to S. Hemisphere, he had to 

 say, that in one of the exceptions instanced, that of the Great Britain, 



