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The decease of Sir William Morison, K.C.B. M,P. &c. late Mana- 
ger of the Royal Institution, was announced from the Chair. 
The Managers reported, 
That henceforth the Upper Library would be kept open from 10 
o’clock A.M. till 10 o'clock P.M. on every day that the Institution 
is open; except on those Fridays on which the Weekly Evening’ 
Meetings are held, when it would be closed at 4 o’clock P.M., and 
at such times as it may be closed by special order. 
‘They further reported that they had engaged Mr. C. W. Vincent, 
son of the Keeper of the Library, as Assistant in the Library, at a 
salary of £35 per annum. 
The following Presents were announced and the thanks of the 
Members ordered to be returned for the same ; — 
From 
John Prosser, Esq. — Four Political Tracts (by Dr. Johnson). 8vo. 1770-5. 
The Institution of Civil Engineers — Proceedings for May 1851. 8vo. 1851. 
W. F. Stevenson, F.R.S. (the Author) — Memoir presented to the Royal Society 
demonstrating the fallacy of the supposed Composition of Water. 12mo. 
1851. 
Gordon Willoughby James Gyll, Esq. M.R.I.—The Enchiridion; or Sum of 
Human Science. 12mo. 1826. 
The Geological Society — Quarterly Journal, No. 26. 185). 
John Weale, Esq. (the Editor) — London Exhibited in 1851. 12mo. 1851. 
Rudimentary Book-Keeping; by James Haddon, M.A. 12mo. 1851. 
Rudimentary Treatise on Logarithms, &c. by H. Law, Esq. 12mo. 1851. 
Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society — Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, 
Vol. xxvii—xxxii. 8vo. 1844-9. 
George Rush, Esq. (the Author) — An Account of Ascents in the Victoria and 
Nassau Balloons, in 1838, 1849, 1850; and an Appendix by W. H. Jones, 
consisting of Tables for Measurement of Heights, &c. 8yo. 1851. 
G. B. Airy, Esq. Astronomer Royal, &c. — Suggestions to Astronomers for the 
Observation of the Total Eclipse of the Sun, on July 28, 1851. 8vo. 1851. 
Hercules Sharpe, Esq. M.R.I.— Nouvelle Route pour la Californie et de la 
Colonisation de Costa Rica. 8vo. Paris. 1851. 
M. Faraday, Esq., Full. Prof. Chem. R.J,— Bulletin de la Classe Physico-Mathé- 
matique de l’ Academie Impériale des Sciences de St. Petersbourg. Tome 
IX. Nos. 7—16. 4to. 1850. 
Alexander Harpur, Esq. (the Author) — An Inquiry into the Essential Nature of 
Phenomena or Perceptible Existence, &c. &c. 8vo. 1850-1. 
Allen Davis, Esq. M.R.I.— Communications on Farming, by Hewitt Davis. 8vo. 
1831-50. 
The Managers of the London Institution.—A Bibliographical Account and Collation 
of “ La Description de l’Egypte,” &c. (Not Published.) 8vo. 1838. 
The Royal Institute of British Architects.— Proceedings for May, 1851. 8vo. 
1851. 
The Atheneum Club.— Annual Report, &c. for 1851. fol. 
Edward B. Lovell, Esq., M.R.1I. (the Author)— Hand-Book of the New Chancery 
Orders, April 22,1850. 12mo. 1850. 
The Monthly Digest, 1850: an Analytical Digest of Equity, Common Law, 
Bankruptcy, Ecclesiastical and Criminal Cases, &c., with a Digest of the 
Statutes. 8vo. 1850. 
Ditto, Nov, 1850 — April, 1851. 8yo. 1851. 
