1864.] 371 • [Chase. 



[My attention has just been called by the last number of the Jour- 

 nal of the Franklin Institute, to some extracts from the London 

 Athenaeum for January, announcing a paper on Magnetic Storms, 

 which was read by Mr. Airy before the Royal Society. I take this 

 early opportunity to acknowledge that the Astronomer Royal appears, 

 in some measure, to have anticipated the views upon the sources of 

 terrestrial magnetism, which I have recently had the honor of com- 

 municating to the Philosophical Society. 



As I have not yet seen the paper in question, I do not know how 

 far the priority may extend ; whatever may be its limits, it gives me 

 pleasure to yield my claims to so distinguished and cautious an inves- 

 tigator, and to find that my own independent conclusions have been 

 so ably corroborated. And I believe I have good grounds for hoping, 

 that in the specific solar action which I have pointed out, iMr. Airy 

 will find the precise " occasional currents produced by some action 

 or cessation of action of the sun," for which he is looking. May 14.] 



Mr. Peale made a communication on stone implements. 

 Pending nominations, Nos. 508 to 522, and new nomina- 

 tions, No. 523, were read, and the Society proceeded to ballot 

 for members. 



Mr. Fraley, on behalf of the Committee on the purchase of 

 a building lot, reported progress. 



All other business having been transacted, the ballot-boxes 

 were opened by the presiding officer, and the following per- 

 sons were declared duly elected members of this Society. 

 Benjamin V. Marsh, of Pliiladelphia. 

 James T. Hodge, of Newburg, N. Y. 

 James Kirchlioff, of Heidelberg, Germany. 

 Francis J. Pictet, of Geneva, Switzerland. 

 Benjamin Studer, of Zurich, Switzerland. 

 Alphonse Count de Gasparin, of Paris. 

 Peter Tunner, of Leoben, in Styria. 

 M. Thury, of Geneva, Switzerland. 

 Rev. Dr. Tholuck, of Halle-an-der-Saale. 

 Carl Schinz, of Offenburg, Baden. 

 William Sellers, of Philailelphia. 

 Richard S. Smith, of Philadelphia. 

 Alexander Wilcocks, M.D., of Philadelphia. 

 And the Society was adjourned. 



