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set on fire by the mere heat of steam acting upon a wooden 

 casing around a steam-chest, which had been for some time 

 subjected to heat communicated from the steam within. 



Dr. R. E. Rogers and Prof. Frazer made some remarks on 

 the subject, and urged the necessity of caution in the construc- 

 tion of lieating apparatus in buihlings. 



The Committee on the sale of the Hall reported progress. 



The Secretary was directed to answer the letter read at last 

 meeting from the Imperial Society of Naturalists of Moscow. 



Stated ISIeeting, October 1 9. 

 Present, twenty-eight members. 

 Judge Kane, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Letters were read: — 



From the Royal Society of Sciences at Stockholm, dated 

 Oct. 23, 1854, and May 31, lS55;-^from the Royal Danish 

 Society of Sciences, dated Copenhagen, May S, lS55;--from 

 the Royal Saxon Society of Sciences, dated Leipzig, May 18, 

 1855; — from the Royal Geographical Society, 15, Whitehall 

 Place, June 2, 1855; — from the Society of Antiquaries, dated 

 Somerset House, London,, July 25, 1855; — from the Ethnolo- 

 gical Society, dated 23 Newman street, Oxford street, Julv 

 25, 1855, — severally announcing donations for the library: — 



From the Royal Lombardy Institute of Science, Letters and 

 Arts, dated Milan, June 22, 1854, acknowledging the receipt 

 of Vol. X. Part 2, of the Transactions, and of the Proceedings 

 to No. 48, — and also announcing a donation for the library: — 

 From the Royal Geographical Society of London, dated 15 

 Whitehall Place, Nov. 14, 1854, acknowledging the receipt of 

 No. 47 of the Proceedings: and — 



From the Royal Danish Society of Sciences, dated Copenha- 

 gen, June, 1855, returning thanks for Vol. X. Part 3, of the 

 Transactions, and for Nos. 49, 50 of the Proceedings of this 

 Society. 



