" Tliat this Society pledges itself to co-operate most cordially in 

 securing the success of the meeting of the British Association." 



Mr. Isaac Byerley exhibited a fine specimen of the Torpedo nohiliana, 

 which was caught by some fishermen in Carnarvon Bay, on Saturday 

 last. The fish is rarely met with, and (when in a living state) is capable 

 of giving very severe electrical shocks. 



SECOND MEETING. 



Royal Institution, October 31, 1853. 



JOSEPH DICKINSON, M.D., F.L.S., &c., President, in the chair. 



At an Extraordinary Meeting, held this evening, the recom- 

 mendation contained in the last Annual Eeport of the Council, 

 " That the subscription payable by Ordinary Members be increased to 

 £1 Is., with an entrance fee of 10s. 6d., as at present, and that Life 

 Members be admitted at £10 10s., without entrance fee : — That the 

 present members of the Society, and aU proposed as members prior to 

 the adoption of any alteration in the subscription, be allowed to 

 compound for their future annual subscriptions by the payment of 



£5 5s., provided the same be done during the Session 1853-54;" was 



taken into consideration: when it was moved by Mr. J. Forshaw and 

 seconded by Mr. A. J. Mott— " That the subscription payable by 

 Ordinaiy Members be increased to £1 Is. for the present Session."— 

 Carried. 



Dr. J. B. Edwards exhibited Photographs of the Torpedo nohiliana, 

 taken from a specimen lately caught in Carnarvon Bay. 



Mr. J. B. Yates exhibited the Victoria Nuggett, from Australia. 



The following recommendation from the Council was read and 

 adopted by the Society, viz. : 



"That the Society be recommended, in an address to the Town 

 Council, to suggest the propriety of associating with the Library 

 Committee some members from the Councils of the Learned Societies." 



