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Russell, Jesse Watts, Esq., M.P. F.R.S. 
Scott, Sir Claude, Bart., F.L.S, and F.H.S. V.P. 
Snodgrass, Thomas, Esq. F.R.S. V.P. 
Soane, John, Esq., F.R.S. and F,S.A. 
Somerset, Duke of, F.R.S. V.P. 
Staunton, Sir George Thomas, Bart., M.P. F.R.S. 
VISITERS. 
Ansley, Col. Benjamin, F.H.S. 
Antrobus, Sir Edmund, Bart., F.R.S., and .S,A. 
Bostock, John. M.D, F.R.S, and F.L.S, 
Chichester, Earl of, F.R.S. 
Children, John George, F.R.S. and F.LS. 
Daniell, John Frederic, Esq., F.R.S. 
Fuller, John, Esq. 
Leake, Lieut.-Col. W.M. F.R.S. 
Leigh, James Heath, Esq. 
Robinson, Rey. Sir John, Bart. 
Solly, Richard Horsman, Esq., F.R.S. and F.S.A, 
Sotheby, William, Esq., F.R.S. and F.S.A. 
Stanley, Sir John Thomas, Bart., F.R.S. and F.S,A. 
Taylor, George Watson, Esq., M.P. 
Weyland, John, Jun. Esq., F.R.S. 
At this meeting the Professor of Chemistry made a report of the 
Proceedings in the Laboratory of the Royal Institution, in which he 
enumerated the various investigations that had been carried on there, 
and took a general view of the progress of Chemical Philosophy dur- 
ing the preceding year. He then adverted particularly to the new 
features that had been given to the Science by the discoveries of Sir 
H. Davy, and to the high reputation which the Royal Institution had 
thence derived; he trusted that it still contributed more towards the 
promotion and extension of chemical Science than any similar esta- 
blishment, similarly endowed, and that its real and permanent objects 
were preserved and promoted, more especially in the extended course 
of practical lectures delivered in the Laboratory ; in which, he observed, 
an attempt is made to set forth with due diligence and dignity those 
new principles in chemical philosophy which have exclusively ema- 
nated from this establishment, to point out their originality and im- 
