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PRESiDENT.—The Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart., G.C.B. 



Treasurer. — Davies Gilbert, Esq., M.P. 



Secretaries. — William Thomas Brande, Esq. 

 Taylor Combe, Esq. 



Council. 



Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart., G.C.B., President. 



William Blake, Esq. 



William Thomas Brande, Esq., Secretary. 



Earl Brownlow. 



Samuel Goodenough, Lord Bishop of Carlisle. 



Earl of Charleville. 



Taylor Combe, Esq., Secretary. 



Alexander Crichton, M.D. 



Davies Gilbert, Esq., Treasurer. 



Major-General Sir J. W. Gordon, K.C.B. 



Sir B. Hobhouse, Bart. 



Sir Everard Home, Bart. 



Captain Henry Kater. 



Daniel Moore, Esq. 



Right Hon. Sir John Nicholl, 



John Pond, Esq. 



Rev. Thomas Rackett. 



Sir J. Staunton, Bart. 



Right Hon. Charles Yorke. 



William Hyde Wollaston, M.D. 



Thomas Young, M.D., Secretary for foreign Correspondence. 



Thursday, December 9th. At this meeting, a paper was 

 communicated, " On the Polarisation of Light," by J. F. W. 

 Herschell, Esq., F.R.S., the reading of which was continued on 

 Thursday the 16th, and terminated on Thursday the 23d instant. 

 The Society then adjourned for the Christmas vacation. 



