On the motion of the Kev. Dr. Tattershall, seconded 

 by S. Turner, Esq., a vote of thanks was passed unani- 

 mously to the retiring President, J. B. Yates, Esq., for his 

 long and valuable services to the Society ; and on the motion 

 of Mr. Yates, votes of thanks were also passed to Dr. 

 Duncan and Mr. Yaniewicz, for their zealous and able 

 discharge of the respective offices of Treasurer and Secretary, 

 to which they were unanimously re-elected. The retiring 

 President then resigned the chair to his successor. 



The President, Dr. Booth, on taking the chair, begged 

 to return his thanks to the members of the Society for the 

 honour which they had done him, in raising him to so dis- 

 tinguished an office. He felt the honour the more sensibly, 

 as it had been conferred on him so soon after he had joined 

 the Society. He could boast of no such claims as those 

 which his predecessor (on whom he passed a warm eulo- 

 gium) derived, from his long residence among them, and from 

 his great and oft-tried services to the Society ; but he would 

 pledge himself to do every thing in his power to promote 

 the interests of the Society, and trusted that he should receive 

 the co-operation and support of the members. 



Dr. Carson then read a paper, " On the effect which the 

 rotatory motion of the earth would produce on a railway train 

 of carriages moving in the meridian," which gave rise to con- 

 siderable discussion, in which the President, Mr. Yates, 

 Dr. Tattershall, Dr. Hume, and several other members 

 took part. 



