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being the first President of such an Association, and would feel it both a duty 

 and a pleasure to discharge its functions to the best of his ability. To the talent* 

 of the able council by which he was surrounded, he would chearfuUy add his own 

 time and best exertions, and had no doubt that the Society would fully redeem 

 the promise which its institution held out to the public. 



The Minntes of all preceding Meetings of Council were then read, in order to 

 put the Society in possession of whatever had as yet passed in the management of 

 its affairs ; and among these subjects thus brought under its notice, was a cor- 

 respondence relating to a very minute Map of the World, preserved in Hereford 

 Cathedral, which the Canons had offered, through Mr. Biddulph, the Society's 

 Treasurer, to forward to London for examination, an offer which had been ac- 

 cepted. In the meantime, Mr. Britton, a Member of Council, laid before the 

 Society three Drawings of it, with some account of the original, partly drawn up 

 by the late Richard Gough, Esq., from memoranda and sketches, made by the 

 late John Center, for which the Society's thanks were voted to him. 



A List of the Presents as yet made to the Society's Library was then read, and 

 thanks ordered to be returned to the respective donors. Adjourned. 



Royal Society. — 18th November. Many donations, presented during the re- 

 cess, were laid before the Meeting. 



A paper was read on the manufacture of water cement, by Lieutenant Colonel 

 Pasley, Royal Artillery. 



Also, an account of Lieutenant Drummond's process of procuring an intense 

 light from a small ball of lime, by placiug it at the junction of oxygen and hy- 

 drogen gas. 



Captain Kater on the difference produced in any linear measure by being in- 

 serted in iron bars of different thickness. 



Account of a newly discovered Pyrometer, by Mr. Daniell. 



A paper on the nature of negative and imaginary quantities, by the President. 



At the close of the Meeting, Mr. Davies Gilbert announced his intention of 

 retiring from the Chair on St. Andrew's day. 



Linncean Society — 2d November. The first Meeting of the Society for the 

 winter session. Part of a paper was read by John Hogg, A.M., on the classical 

 plants of Sicily. 



1 6th November. The continuation of Mr. Hogg's paper was read. Also, a 

 paper by Lieutenant Bowler, communicated by the Asiatic Society, on a particu- 

 lar species of palm, {Hyphcene coriacea Gaert.) found in the Government of Ma- 

 dras. 



Geological Society — 5th November. Many donations presented during the 

 recess were laid before the Society. 



A paper, by Mr. Yates, on alluvial deposits, was read. 

 - The AthencBum state that the Geological Society wish the proceedings of their 

 meetings not to be made public. What is the meaning of this ? The result i* 

 that we are unable to continue our reports. 



Zoological Society — November 4th. Opening meeting of the winter session. 

 Donations, of great value, received during the recess, were laid before the So- 

 ciety ; among others, an orang-outang and a wombat. 



Horticultural Society of London — November 2d. Read, 1. a report upon the 

 effect of planting certain tender exotic plants in the open air at Bristol, by W. P, 

 Taunton, Esq. 



■ 2. A report from the garden of the Society, upon the eflTect of the stock upon 

 fruit trees, by Mr. Robert Thompson. 



3. An account of a new kind of protecting frame to be used in forcing aspara- 

 gus, sea-kale, &c., in the open ground, by Mr, John Dick of Ballindean, near Perth, 



