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7. On Mr Napier's Portable Oven, Mr Hunter, Convener. (765.) 



8. On Mr Napier's Machine or Camel for raising ships in the water, to 

 enable them to pass over shallows. Mr David Stevenson, Convener. (763.) 



9. Donation — The Transactions of the Society for the Encouragement 

 of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, Adelphi, London : from its com- 

 mencement, excepting vols. iv. and xxv. Presented by the London Society 

 of Arts. (703.) Thanks voted. 



10. Donation — Supplementary Report on Meteorology made to the Bri- 

 tish Association in 1840. By James D. Forbes, Esq., F.R.S., Sec. R.S.E. 

 (London 1841.) Presented by the Author, (707.) Thanks voted. 



11. Donation — Introduction to the Science of Astronomy. By W. & R. 

 Chambers. Embossed, by permission, for the use of the blind, with Dia- 

 grams. By John Alston, Esq., of Rosemount, lion. M.S.A. (1841.) Pre- 

 sented by Mr Alston. (804.) Thanks voted. 



2. Donation — A Time-piece of Parisian Manufacture, which belonged 

 to the late Mr James Cowan, watchmaker, Edinburgh, made for him 

 while he resided in Paris in 1749, and which, on his death in 1781, be- 

 came the property of Mr Tliomas Reid, watchmaker, Edinburgh, his suc- 

 cessor. Presented by AVm. Auld, Esq., 67 Great King Street, Edinburgh, 

 (807.) Thanks voted. 



13. Donation — The Art of Daguerreotyping, with the Improvements of 

 the Process and Camera. By Mr Thomas Davidson, optician, Edinburgh, 

 M.S.A. Presented by Mr Davidson. (794.) Thanks voted. 



I. The following candidates were balloted for and admitted 

 as Ordinary Members, viz. : — 



1. J. Ewart Walker, M.D., 1 Lower Gray Street. 



2. P. Nimmo, Esq., 14 Stafford Street. 



II. The Council reported on the subject of a Charter of In- 

 corporation, recommending that it be applied for; and the 

 draft of one proposed by them was read and approved of ge- 

 nerally ; and a Committee was appointed to revise it and report. 



hth July 1841. — Andrew Fyfe, M. D., President, in the 

 chair. On which occasion Field-Marshall His Royal High- 

 ness Prince Albert, K G., was unanimously elected an Hon- 

 orary Member. The following communications were made : — 



1. Sir John Robison, K.II. exhibited — 



1. Specimen of Maps for the Blind, printed in France. 



2. Plan of London in Relief (about to bo published by Ackcrmann). 



3. Specimen of Printing in Metallic Colours (from Cologne). 



4. Small Casts and a Hollow Mould in Hard Cement, by Ilypolito 



Vincent, of Paris. 



5. An Opera-Glass of a good and cheap construction from Paris. (816.) 



