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THIRD ORDINARY MEETING. 



Royal Institution, 16th November, 1857. 



THOMAS INMAN, Esq., M.D., President, in the Chair. 



The following were elected Ordinary Members : — 

 Joseph Coopek, Esq., Alderman. 

 James Elliot, Esq., Professor of Mathematics, 



Queen's College. 

 Gregory Tymbas, Esq. 

 Senor Don Manuel Pacheco. 

 The Rev. H. H. Higgins exhibited one of the rarest of 

 oui' Fungi, the BatarreapliaUoides, found near Wallasey. 



Isaac Byerley, Esq., F.L.S., exhibited a Locust, 

 captured last summer at Liscard ; and a Cidaris papilhsa, 

 dredged off the N.W. coast of Ireland. 



The Rev. J. Robberds, B.A., referred to Sir John 

 Herschel's successful translations into hexameter and 

 pentameter verses, recently published. 



Professor Hamilton then read the first part of his 

 paper, which will be foimd recorded in the business of 

 the next ordinary meeting. 



An EXTRAORDINARY MEETING was then held, to 

 consider for the second time the motion adopted at the 

 last meeting ; which resolution was unanimously con- 

 firmed. (See page 46.) 



