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power, and having ascertained through its Secretary, Mr. 

 Phillips, that the design would meet with adequate support 

 from scientific men in various parts of the kingdom, proceeded 

 on the ] 2th of July to issue a general circular inviting the 

 friends of science to meet in the apartments of the Society 

 during the last week in September. 



To give publicity to the invitation, the Committee which the 

 Council appointed to make the necessary arrangements for the 

 Meeting, addressed copies of the circular to the Presidents 

 and Secretaries of all the Philosophical Institutions in Eng- 

 land. As President of the first of our scientific establish- 

 ments, the Duke of Sussex was solicited to honour the Meeting 

 with his presence. His Royal Highness replied, that if his 

 engagements had permitted him, nothing would have given 

 him greater pleasure than to have accepted the invitation ; and 

 he desired that his best wishes for the success of so praise- 

 worthy an object might be communicated, with an assurance 

 of his warm co-operation in promoting any measure which 

 might be suggested and sanctioned by such a Meeting. 

 Copies of the circular were also sent to correspondents, 

 for distribution in Scotland and Ireland ; the substance 

 of it was publicly advertised, and the invitation was ad- 

 dressed individually to a numerous list of persons who were 

 known to occupy themselves in the cultivation of science. Of 

 the arrangements which subsequently occupied the attention 

 of the managing Committee, it is sufficient here to state 

 that they satisfied the objects, and obtained the thanks of 

 the Meeting. 



On the 27th of September, the Society had the satisfaction 

 of seeing collected within its walls an assemblage of many 

 eminent Members of learned and scientific bodies from dif^ 

 ferent parts of the united kingdoms, before whom it became 

 the duty of the Council, by the previously expressed desire of 



