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Professor Forbes then gave a verbal notice of Dr Faraday's 

 recent investigations on the Magnetism of Oxygen Gas and 

 of the Atmosphere, including his view^s on the Diurnal Varia- 

 tion of the Needle. 



Dr Spittal 



Was balloted for, and duly re-elected a Fellow of the Society. 



The follovi^ing Gentlemen were duly elected Ordinary 

 Fellows : — 



Beriah Botfield, Esq., P.R.S., Norton Hall, Northamptonshire. 

 Dr James Scarth Combe. 



The following Donations to the Library were announced : — 



Journal of the Statistical Society of London. Vol. XIIL, Pt. 3. 

 8vo. — By the Society. 



Natuurkundige Verhandelingen van de Hollandsche Maatschappij der 

 Wetenschappen te Haarlem. Diet. 5 & 6. 4 to. — By the Society, 



Astronomische Beobachtungen auf der K. Universitats Sternwarte 

 in Konigsberg. Herausg. Von A. L. Busch. Abtheil. 29. fol. — 

 By the Observatory. 



Observations made at the Magnetical and Meteorological Observa- 

 tory at Hobarton, in Van Diemen Island, and by the Antarctic 

 Naval Expedition. Vol.1. 1841. 4to. — By the Observatory . 



Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. Vol. V., 

 No. 44. 8vo. — By the Society. 



Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. Nos. 178-189. 

 8vo. — By the Society. 



Proceedings of the Royal Society. Nos. 73 & 74. 8vo. — By the 

 Society, 



Seventeenth Annual Report of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic So- 

 ciety. 1849. 8vo. — By the Society. 



Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. N. S. No. 37. 8vo. — 

 By the Society. 



Letter to the Rt. Hon. Lord Brougham and Vaux, containing pro- 

 posals for a scientific exploration of Egypt and Ethiopia. By 

 John James "Wild. 8vo. — By the Author. 



The Accommodation of the Eye to Distances. By William Clay 

 Wallace, M.D. 8vo. — By the Author. 



