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■Graah's explorations on the east coast of Greenland, accompanied by a map 

 of this coast from 60° to 65° 3(y N. 



M. Steenstrup, and Professor Rafn, also gave information on this sub- 

 ject. M. Jomard read a letter from M. P'ontanier, dated Constantinople* 

 Sept. 6, and calling the attention of geographers to the inaccuracy of the 

 maps in respect to the coasts of the Black Sea. He intended to follow 

 the coast to Trebisonde, in a small boat, and to lay down with care the 

 mouths of the rivers. 



Captain d'Urville made a very extended report on Mr Buckingham's 

 project of a voyage of circumnavigation. 



Nov. 19. M. Rafn communicated a description of a Runic monument 

 discovered on the east coast of Greenland. 



M. Graberg de Hemso sent a notice on M. Caillie's Travels, discussing 

 the different denominations given by travellers to the city of Timbuctoo. 



Dec. 3. Colonel Poinsett presented several works on Mexico, Florida, 

 and the State of Michuacan ; and recommended particularly to the support 

 of the society, M. Franck, a distinguished artist, who had made a very 

 curious collection of Mexican antiquities. 



Dr Reinganum addressed to the society a notice on the globes and maps 

 in relief of M. Kummer. See Geog. Collections, p. 233, svpra. 



M. Jomard announced that M. Henri Ternaux was on his return from 

 travels in America. 



Captain D'Urville communicated to the Society a table of observations 

 on the temperature of the sea at different depths, made by him dming the 

 voyage of the Astrolabe. 



M. Rifaud read some remarks on Egypt from his joumaL 



Dec. 10. General Assemhhf The Due de Doudeauville, peer of France, 



titular president of the society, opened the meeting with a neat address. 



M. Jouannin then read his report of the proceedings of the last year, 

 (See the last number of this Journal, p. 150.) 



The Assembly elected MM. Dufour, Gualtier d'Arc, Caussin de Perce- 

 val, and Ansart, the members of the central commission for the succeeding 

 year. 



Dec. 17. M. Barrow wrote to the society, with a copy of the Report 

 of the Committee of the Astronomical Society of London, relative to the 

 improvements of which the Naulicol Almanac is susceptible ; and with it 

 was a specimen of the changes, additions, and improvements proposed to be 

 made in this work for 1834. 



The society received, in competition for the prize of 1830, a memoir on 

 the barometric levelling of Cevennes. 



M. Eyries corrected the orthography of some of the names of places in 

 the notice of the east coast of Greenland. ( lliese corrections will he given 

 in our next Number, as addenda to the notices of Capt. Graah's Expedition, 

 pp. 99, and 161, supra.) 



The central commission elected Baron Walcknaer, President ; MM. 

 Jomard and Bonne, Vice-presidents ; and M. Jouannin, General Secretary, 

 for the ensuing year. 



Great Scientific Meeting to be held at York Arrangements are now 



making for holding at York, in July or August next, a meeting of the 

 cultivators of science from every part of the British Islands. The object 

 of the association is similar to that of the German Society of Naturalists 

 and Philosophers. The sittings will continue for a week. The Lord 

 Mayor, and the authorities at York, have, as might have been expected, 

 entered heartily into this plan, and the Philosophical Society of that city 

 have kindly offered to charge themselves with any preliminary arrangements 

 which may be necessary. 



