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and the Influence of the Aurora Borealis upon it j" by Robert Were Fox, 



Esq. 



March 24. J. W. Lubbock, V.P. in the chair. Two papers were read : 

 1st. A description of Mr Robinson's mountain barometer, the column of 

 which is divisible into two pcrtions ; communicated by Captain Kater. 

 2d. On water cements ; by Colonel Pasley. 



Meetings adjourned till after Easter. 



April 14. Meetings resumed. His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex 

 in the chair. The reading of Colonel Pasley's paper was concluded. 

 There was also read a paper *' on Meteorological Observations, made at the 

 Apartments of the Royal Society j" by J. W. Lubbock, Esq. 



The Spanish Nautical Almanac, calculated for the meridian and parallel 

 of the Royal Marine Observatory at Cadiz, for 1833, was presented by the 

 King of Spain. 



April 21 Sir A. Cooper in the chair. A paper was read on the errors 



in the course of vessels, occasioned by local attraction, with some remarks 

 on the recent loss of his Majesty's ship Thetis, by Peter Barlow, Esq. 

 Professor Buckland presented his work on the occurrence of the remains of 

 elephants, and other quadrupeds in the cliffs of frozen sand in Eschscholtz 

 Bay, within Behring's Strait, and in other distant parts of the Arctic Seas. 



May 5. His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex in the chair. Three 

 papers were read, — 1. On the effects of hot water on the Batrachia, by Dr 

 Marshall Hall. 2. An account of a new method of propelling vessels, by 

 Mr W. Hall, communicated by Richard Penn, Esq. 3. Additional thoughts 

 on the use of the ganglions in furnishing electricity for the production of 

 animal secretions, by Sir E. Home^t BarU . ... 



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Geological Society — March 2. ,|Jl,.iX<iW|c|»i^P?^ Esq. president, in the 

 €baiF. 



A paper was read on the ripple marks and tracks of animals in the forest 

 marble; by George Poulett Scrope, Esq. F. G.S. F.R.S. 



The reading of a paper was begun, entitled. Description of a Series of 

 Longitudinal and Transverse Sections through a portion of the Carboni- 

 ferous Chain between Penigent and Kirkby Stephen; by Professor 

 Sedgwick, F.G.S. F.R.S. 



March 16. K. L Murchison, Esq. president, in the chair. 



Professor Sedgwick's paper was concluded. 



March 30. W. J. Broderip, Esq. V. P. in the chair. A paper was read 

 on the geology of Swan River and Garden Island, {Jsle Buache,) by the 

 venerable Archdeacon Scott, F. G. S. This memoir was accompanied by a 

 series of specimens illustrative of the general structure of the country, and 

 particularly of the modern calcareous form, which constitutes so great a 

 portion of the western coast of Australia. 



There was likewise exhibited a new species of Delphinula, (D. lamellosa,) 

 which occurs in a recent state on the beach of Garden Island, and was also 

 found fossil in digging a well, on the main land, one mile from the shore, at 

 the depth of 84 feet, imbedded in the calcareous sand. 



April 13. Roderick Impey Murchison, Esq. President, in the chair. 

 A p.jper was read on the limestone caves at Wellington Valley, New South 

 Wales ; and on the fossil bones which have recently been found there ; by 

 Major Mitchell, F.G.S. Surveyor General in the colony. The memoir was 

 illustrated by numerous drawings, and a large collection of specimens of the 

 breccia in which the bones, belonging to the wombat, kangaroo, koala, 

 dasyurus, and phalangista, were found. 



The tibia of a gigantic Saurian reptile, found in the Tilgate strata, was 

 exhibited by Robert Trotter, Esq. F. G. S. 



AprU 27. R. L Murchison, Esq. president, in the chair. An extract 



