180 Scientific Intelligence. 



March 16. — The following Members were elected council and officers 

 for the ensuing year. 



COUNCIL. 

 PRESIDENT. 



The Lord Bishop of Cloyne. 



COMMITTEE OF SCIENCE. 



Archbishop of Dublin ; Joseph Clarke, M. D. ; Rev. Samuel Kyle, 

 D. D. P. T. C. D. ; Rev. Franc Sadleir, D. D. ; Sir C. I.. Giesecke ; Rev. 

 R. MacDonnel, D. D. ; Professor Hamilton. 



COMMITTEE OF POLITE LITERATURE. 



Rev. Jos. H. Singer, D. D. ; Andrew Carmichael, Esq. ; Samuel Lit- 

 ton, M. D. ; Rev. W. Drummond, D. D. ; Hon. and Rev. J. Pomeroy ; 

 Rob. J. Graves, M. D. ; James Apjohn, M. D. 



COMMITTEE OF ANTIQUITIES. 



William Brooke, M. D. ; Isaac D'Olier, LL. D ; T. H. Orpen, M. D. ; 

 Hugh Ferguson, M. D. ; Sir W. Betham ; John D' Alton, Esq. ; George 

 Petrie, Esq. 



OFFICERS. 



Treasurer. — William Brooke, M. D. 



Secretaries. — Rev. J. H. Singer, D. D. ; Rev. Franc Sadleir, D. D. 



Librarian. — Rev. W. H. Drummond. 



Secretary of Foreign Correspondence. — Sir William Betham. 



The following gentlemen were admitted Ordinary Members : — 



Samuel O'Malley, Esq. ; John Ryan, M. D. ; James W. Cusack, M. D. ; 

 Francis Rynd, Esq. ; — and Davies Gilbert, Esq. President of the Royal So- 

 ciety of London, an Honorary Member. 



An ancient Brass Instrument, with a drawing of it, exhibited by the 

 Bishop of Down, and the latter ordered to be lithographed. 



April 27. — William West, M. D. admitted an Ordinary Member. 



May 25.^Read part of two Prize Essays : one on the Change of Cli- 

 mate in Ireland, and the other on the Authenticity of the Poems of Ossian. 



Professor Davy exhibited a specimen of Bromine* 



,^ Art. XXVIIL— SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 



I. NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. 

 ASTRONOMY. 



1. New Solar Tables, with Professor Airy and Professor Bessel's correct 

 lions. — In consequence of the singular discordances between the place of 

 the sun, as computed from the best Solar Tables, and its true place as actu- 

 ally observed and pointed out by Mr South in the Philosophical Tranmc- 

 iions for 1827, the attention of various astronomers has been directed to 

 that subject, with a view to a solution of the difficulty. Amongst these. 

 Professor Airy and Professor Bessel have most distinguishecl themselves 

 by their very laborious and minute examination of all the points that bear 

 on the subject : and the results of this severe and rigid inquiry has led 



