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The following Donations to the Library were announced : — 



Observations made at the Magnetical and Meteorological Observa- 

 tory at St Helena. Vol. I. 1840-43. 410.—% H. M. 

 Government. 



Fusinieri (A.) suUe Ipotesi del Signor Melloni circa il Galore 

 Raggiante. 4to. — By the Author. 



Astronomical Observations made at the Royal Observatory, Edin- 

 burgh. By the late Thomas Henderson. Reduced and Edited 

 by C. P. Smyth. Vol. VII. for 1841. 4to.— £j/ the Royal 

 Observatory. 



Fellenberg (L. R. de), Fi-agmens de Recherches coniparees sur la 

 Nature constitutive de diflerentes soi-tes de Fibrine du Cheval 

 dans I'etat Normal et Pathologique. 8vo. 



Analyse de I'Eau Minerale de Weissenburg. 8vo. 



Ueber die bei der Consolidation des FaserstofFes stattfindenden 



Veranderungen der elementar - analytischen Bestandtheile 

 desselben. 8vo. — By the Author. 



Bulletin des Seances de la Societe Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles. 

 No 13. 8vo.— By the Society. 



Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London. Vol. XVII., 

 Part 2. 1847. 8vo. — By the Society. 



The London University Calendar for 1848. l2mo.— By the 

 University. 



Acta AcademifE Csesarese Leopoldino-Carolinre Naturae Curiosoruu). 

 Vol. XXL, Pars 2. 4to. — By the Academy. 



Monday., 21s^ February 1848. 



Right Rev. BISHOP TERROT, V.P., in the Chair. 



The following Communications were read : — 



1. Practical Illustration of the Adjustments of the Equatorial 

 Instrument. By Professor C. Piazzi Smyth. 



The object of this paper was partly to introduce to the notice of 

 travellers and i-esidents in tropical countries, a small equatorial in- 

 strument, specially contrived for observing the Zodiacal liglit ; and 

 partly to bring forward before amateur astronomers, prominently, 



