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NovemBeER 30, 1850.—(Sratep MEETING.). 
HUMPHREY LLOYD, D.D., Presipent, 
in the Chair. 
On the recommendation of Council, 
Ir was Reso_tvep,— That the rule of the Academy limit- 
ing the number of Honorary Members to sixty, be not consi- 
dered as applying to the President and Ex-Presidents of the 
Royal Society.” 
The following Gentlemen were elected Honorary Mem- 
bers of the Academy :—Jn Science—Alexander D. Bache, 
Washington. Jn Polite Literature — Washington Irving, 
New York; Augustus Boeck, Berlin; Victor Cousin, Paris. 
In Antiquities—L. C. F. Petit-Radel, Paris; and C. T. Grote- 
fend, Hanover. 
The President read the following paper on the position of 
the Isogonal Lines in Ireland, as deduced from the obser- 
vations of Sir James Ross, in 1838. 
“In the year 1835 I laid before the British Association, 
then assembled in Dublin, a Report on the Direction and Inten- 
sity of the Terrestrial Magnetic Force in Ireland, based upon ob- 
servations made by Lieut.-Colonel Sabine, Sir James C. Ross, 
and myself.* In these observations Mr. Robert Were Fox and 
Professor Phillips afterwards took part; and the survey was 
subsequently extended to the whole of the British Islands. 
The details of this extended survey are given ina Memoir on 
the Magnetic Isoclinal and Isodynamic lines in the British 
Islands, drawn up chiefly by Lieut.-Colonel Sabine. f 
‘«¢ The observations contained in these Reports are limited 
to the Magnetic Inclination and Intensity. Observations of 
the Declination, as well as of the other two elements, were 
* Fifth Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. 
+ Eighth Report. 
