1827.] 



Domestic and Foreign. 



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compressed into one volume of about six 

 hundred pages in 24mo. by no means of an 

 inconvenient thickness. The paper is good ; 

 the type distinct, and the price very moderate. 

 Brief, but very useful notes facilitating the 

 construction, and explanatory of obsolete 

 terms are placed at the foot of each, eight 

 or ten on an average, by Pietro Ciochetti, 

 professore de lingua Italiana dell' Aecademia 



di Arte e Scienze ; and all the words,, the 

 quantity, or rather the accent of which is ut- 

 all doubtful, are carefully accented. 



The preface announces the speedy publi- 

 cation, in a similar form, of La Gerusalemme 

 liberata; leRime; I ' Orlando Furioso ; il 

 Pastor Fido ; la Secchia rapita ; and some 

 opere scelte of Metastasio and others. The 

 attempt is deserving of support. 



PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 



DOMESTIC. 

 ROYAL SOCIETY. 



The rumour is continually gaining ground 

 that a new president will be appointed to the 

 chair of the Royal Society. 



GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Dec. 15th. The reading of a paper was 

 concluded, entitled " additional notes on the 

 opposite coasts of France and England, in- 

 cluding some account of the lower Boulon- 

 nais," by the president Dr. Fitton. 



Jan. <5. A notice was read, accompany- 

 ing some specimens from the Hastings for- 

 mation, with a copy of a work on the 

 fossils of Tilgate forest, by G. Mantell, esq 1 . 

 The reading of a paper was commenced on 

 the coal-field of Brora, Sutherlandshire, 

 North Britain, and upon some other second- 

 ary deposits of the North of Scotland, by R. J. 

 Murehison, esq. 



ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY. 



Dec. 8. A letter from Mr. Flaugergues, 

 of Vivieres, communicated the intelligence 

 that while looking for the comet, in the 

 constellation Taurus, discovered by Mr. Gam- 

 bart, of Marseilles, he had found another 

 under the left arm of Orion. A letter from 

 Mr. Gambavt, dated Marseilles, October 29, 

 announced his discovery, the preceding even- 

 ing, of a comet, having then J 4 h. 38m. 

 A.R., and 36.1 Dec. North. A letter from 

 Professor Santini, dated Padua, November 

 6, detailed observations of a comet, disco- 

 vered by M. Pon.s, at Florence, the 7th 

 of October. Of the planet Aries, near its 

 opposition to the Sun, in 1826, and of Pallas 

 and Vesta, under the same circumstances. 

 M. Santini has compared these obversations 

 with the geocentric positions of Pallas and 

 Vesta, as computed by Professor Encke, 

 and the mean differences are, for Pallas in 

 A.R. + 3.96", in decl. 0..54" ; for Vesta in 

 A.R. + 1 1 .43', in decl 4.32'. A postscript, 

 dated November 7. The discovery of ano- 

 ther comet, on the 22d of October, in Bootes, 

 by Mr. Pons, was announced. An account 

 of the solar eclipse of November, as ob- 

 served by Colonel Beaufoy, at Bushey, was 

 read to the society. At the meeting on Fe- 

 bruary 9, after the seventh annual report of 

 the council had been delivered, they pro- 

 ceeded to the election of officers for the en- 

 suing year, when the following list was de- 



livered in by the scrutineers: viz. Presi- 

 dent: J. F. W. Herschel, Esq., M.A., F.R.S., 

 L. and E., M.R.I.A., and F.G.S. ^ice-Presi- 

 dents : Capt. F. Beaufort, R.N., F.R.S. ; Lieut.- 

 Gen. Sir T. M.Brisbane, K.C.B., F.R.S., L. and 

 F. ; Henry ThomasColebrooke, Esq., F.R.S., 

 L. and E., F.L.S., and o.s. ; James South, 

 Esq., F.R.S. and L.S. Treasurer: Rev. W. 

 Pearson, LL.D., F.R.S. Secretaries: Olin- 

 thus G. Gregory, LL.D.; Prof. Math. Royal 

 Mil. Acad. Woolwich ; Lieut. W.S.Stratford, 

 R.N. Foreign Secretary: Charles Babbage, 

 Esq., M.A., F.R.S., L.and E., and M.R.I.A. 

 Council : Francis Baily, Esq., F.R.S., L.S. and 

 G.S., and M.R.I.A. ; Colonel Mark Beaufoy, 

 F.R.S. and L.S. ; Lieut.-Col. Thomas Colby, 

 R.E., LL.D. and F.R.S., L. and E.; Capt. 

 George Everest ; Davies Gilbert, Esq., M.P., 

 V.P.R s., F L.S., and G.S.; Benjamin Gom- 

 pertz, Esq., F.R.S.; Stephen Groombridge, 

 Esq., F.R.S. ; JamesHorsburgh, Esq., F.R.S. ; 

 Rt. Hon. Lord Oxmantown ; Edward Riddle, 

 Esq. 



FOREIGN. 



INSTITUTE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



Paris, November 20. A letter of Mr. 

 Achille Richard was read, offering to the 

 academy a copy of a posthumous botanical 

 work of his father, which had been com- 

 pleted by himself. The work was referred to 

 M. Desfontaines. Messrs. Thenard and 

 Chevreul were charged with the examination 

 of a note of M. Moriu, an apothecary at 

 Rouen, relative to a concretion found in the 

 brain of a man who had died of an affection 

 in the stomach. A letter from Mr.Gambart, 

 of Marseilles, detailed some observations of 

 the last comet. A memoir on the attraction 

 of spheroids, was presented by M. Poisson. 

 M. Jomard communicated some geological 

 remarks on the countries to the west and 

 south of Darfour, from the notes of M. 

 Koenig, a French traveller. A memoir 

 on some equations in physics was read by 

 M. Cauchy, and another by M. Vallot, on 

 the living animals found in solid bodies ; the 

 last was referred to Messrs. Brongniard 

 and Beudant. 27. A manuscript entitled 

 the elements of arithmetic, according to a 

 new system, was presented by M. Bardel, 

 and referred to Messrs. Legender and Poinsot. 

 A manuscript treatise on the mathematical 

 knowledge necessary to artists, was for- 

 warded by M. Guibal, and referred to 



