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January 11th, 1847- 



The Rev. J. BOOTH, LL.D., F.R.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Rev. Baden Powell, M. A., F. R. S., Savilian 

 Professor of Geometry in the University of Oxford, was 

 elected a Corresponding Member of the Society. 



A recommendation from the Council was received and 

 adopted, — That the Gold Medal voted at the last meeting 

 be adjudged to the best Paper read before the Society during 

 the present or following Session. 



Mr. T. E. Hardy made some observations on the pro- 

 bable success which will attend the future cultivation of the 

 Potato in England. 



Mr. Yaniewicz exhibited an apparatus for inhaling the 

 vapour of Ether, and stated that he had applied it 

 successfully. 



Mr. Mayer exhibited some designs for the Gold Medal 

 voted at the last meeting. 



In the unavoidable absence of Mr. Yates, whose Paper 

 was announced in the Circular, Dr. Hume submitted to the 

 Society two communications. The first was on Genealogy, 

 in illustration of which he exhibited the Eyton Pedigree, 

 the emblazoning of which he had just completed. It was 

 as follows : — 



It is a proposition which may be regarded as a universal 

 one, that the wise man respects every legitimate subject of 

 human inquiry, while the unwise man despises all tbose of 

 which he himself is utterly ignorant. Accordingly, we find 

 that the subject of Genealogy, and the collateral subject of 

 Heraldry, are treated with much disrespect in modern times, 

 not — as I maintain — from their intrinsic want of importance, 



