Report, <5jrc. 53 



Mr. Hayward made some additional remarks on the phe- 

 nomena of the aberration of light, and gave a history of its 

 discovery by Bradley. ^ 



There were twenty-five members present. 



Saturday, October 3]«<, 1868. 



The Society held their Fifty-second Meeting in the Vaughan 



i^ibrary, the use of which had been kindly granted by Dr. Butler 



m a letter read by the President at the meeting. ^ ' 



The President stated that the Spectrum of the " Red Flames" 



;L J/"?' r ''" °^''"''^ ^^ ^^'- ^°^°^^" Lockyer, without 



tne aid 01 an eclipse. 



The objects exhibited were : — 



A collection of Australian Seaweeds . . . . By Mr Griffith 



A collection of English Seaweeds, to be compared with the preceding 



A T,««+i« J • . ^^ THE President. 



A beetle engaged m convertmg to sawdust a twig where it had formed 



A sectioVof fossHSd ' " '^^ ^^^^'^^ " " ^^ % S^ir " 



A title-deed temp., Edward II., accompanied by 'its translaSon Int^o 



good JLatin Bv P 



^ °°\:L??r;Sc:.'^'^"^"^ °' Eugenius /drawings -of Sintp;: 



Various fossils from the Pleistocene Alluvium, near Mosbach By Bal Jour 



A piece of green sand, fuU of fossil shells, from the shore of Alum Bay- 



calcareous accretion from a millstone, nearly half an inch thick 



A portrait of Shakespeare, in sealing wai, the impression of a seal found 

 A^nad^^dcSer'"":"- .. - .. - =f ^'bTl^; 

 Snell read a paper on the Pyramids. 



Mr. Farrar made some remarks on the curious coincidences 

 sometimes observed m numbers. 



Mr. Griffith reminded the Society of the transit of Mercury 

 across the sun s disc, at sunrise on November 5. 



Champion and Bastow were elected members. 



