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NOTICES AND PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC 

 SOCIETIES. 



Meeting of Naturalists at York — We are happy to inform our readers, 

 that this meeting is likely to prove eminently successful. We understand 

 that it has excited a considerable sensation in London ; and the sectioti of 

 geologists, with R. I. Murchison, Esq. President of the Geological Society, 

 at their head, is expected to be particularly strong. The time of meeting is 

 not yet, we believe, definitely fixed, but the last week of September is that 

 which seems to be the most convenient for the greater number of scientific 

 men in this country, and is likely to be agreed upon. We again call the 

 attention of our readers to this meeting ; all who take an interest in natural 

 science are invited to attend. Inquiries have been made by letters to John 

 Robison, Esq. interim secretary to the meeting, regarding the rules or 

 regulations of the proposed society : of course no regulations yet exist ; it 

 will be the first object of the meeting to frame such regulations. 



It is desirable that such gentlemen as mean to attend, should send in 

 their names either to John Robison, Esq. of Edinburgh, or to Mr Phillips 

 of York ; if by letter, post paid. 



LONDON. 



Royal Geographical Society. — March 28. W. R. Hamilton, Esq. V. P. 

 in the chair. A paper was read on the ancient geography of the Euxine, 

 and Sea of Marmora, communicated by Dr Goodenough. 



C. M'Kenzie, Esq. and Captain- T. Smith were elected members. 



April W. W. R. Hamilton, V. P. in the chair. A letter was read 

 from Mr Jones, explaining the construction of a portable barometer, lately 

 invented by him ; it is made entirely of metal, and is consequently less 

 liable to accidental injuries or destruction than the common glass one, — > 

 besides which, it possesses some other advantages. The height of the 

 mercury, although enclosed in an opaque tube, is ascertained by means of a 

 tloat on its surface, whose movements are indicated by a needle, which rises 

 through a hole in the otherwise close cover of the tube. A double stop- 

 cock, placed nearly in the neck of the siphon, either entirely closes in the 

 mercury when the instrument is not in use, or varies its diameter at will 

 when about to be consulted at sea, and when the motion of the vessel may 

 render the use of the entire column inconvenient. 



A geographical and topographical memoir on the empire of Morocco 

 was communicated by Lieutenant Washington, R.N. and also the result of 

 observations made by him in October — December 1829. {Vide Geogra- 

 phical Collections, svpra.) 



April 25. John Rarrow, Esq. V. P. in the chair. Mr Washington's 

 Account of Morocco was concluded ; and a general view, communicated by 

 Captain P. P. King, R. N. of his late survey of the Straits of Magellan 

 and adjoining coasts, was begun. 



The following intimation has been issued by the Society : — 



Royal Premium The president and the council give notice, that his 



Majesty's annual premium of fifty guineas, for the year 1831, will be given 

 to the author of the best memoir, accompanied by sufficient plans and A'iews, 

 M'hich shall describe in detail any important and unpublished discovery made 

 by the candidate, in any branch of geography, provided that the same be 



