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be 6 instead of 7? •'■^ hitlicito doscribcd by all systematic naturalists, 

 who depend on organic structure for the- cliaractcrs of their classifi- 

 cation. 



The following Donations to the Library were announced : — 



An Attempt to discover some of the Laws which govern Animal 



Torpidity and Hibernation. By Peter A. Browne, LL.D. 



8vo. — Bi/ the Author. 

 Cambridge and Dublin Mathematical Journal. Nos. 13 and 14. 8vo. 



— By the Editor. 

 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. No. 184. 8vo. — Bt/ the 



Society. 

 Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Sias. Nos. 1, 2, 3. 



8vo. — By the Editor. 

 Guyot (A.) Note sur la distribution de Roches dans le Bassin Erra- 



tique du Rhone. 8vo. 



Note sur le Bassin Erratique du Rhin. 8vo. 



Note sur la Topographic dos Alpes Pen nines, &c. 8vo. — 



By the Author. 



Monday, 6th March 1848. 

 The Very Rev. PRINCIPAL LEE, V.P., in the Chair. 



The Chairman, after a brief account of the Keith Founda- 

 tion, presented to General Sir Thomas M. Brisbane, Bart., 

 G.C.B., President of the Society, the Keith Prize Medal, 

 awarded to him by the Council, for the Makerstoun Obser- 

 vations on Magnetic Phenomena, made at his expense, and 

 published in the Transactions of the Society. 



The Chairman also announced that the Council had also 

 awarded, independently of the Keitli Prize, a Silver Medal 

 to J. A. Broun, Esq., in token of their sense of his merits, in 

 conducting and superintending the Makerstoun Observa- 

 tions. 



