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To conclude, we may not be able, like Coleridge, to compose poetiy ; 

 but we may so feel it in the writings of others, and in its reflection in 

 our own hearts, as to be able to say with Coleridge, " Poetry has been 

 to me its own exceeding great reward ; it has soothed my afflictions ; 

 it has multiplied and refined my enjoyments ; it has endeared solitude ; 

 and it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and the 

 beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me." 



FOURTH ORDINARY MEETING, 



Royal Institution, Nov. 2G, 1855. 

 ROBERT M'ANDREW, Esq., F.R.S., President, in tlie Chair. 



The resignation of Mr. G. M. Davis was received. 



Mr. A. Bohtlingk was elected an Ordinary Member. 



Mr. Foard presented copies of his photograph of the urn exhibited 

 by Dr. Ihne, and received the Society's thanks. One of these was 

 directed to be presented to Miss A. Hope, to whom the urn belongs, 

 another to the President, and a third to Dr. Ihne. 



Mr. Edward Fletcher exhibited a very handsome Fungus, polyponis 

 versicolor; Mr. T. C. Archer, a specimen of the Shola stem; Mr. 

 Marrat, the Encalypta ciliata, which he considered had been mistaken 

 for the E. streptocarpa, a moss which he had not found in this place ; 

 and Dr. Ihne, several Roman coins, each possessing a peculiar interest. 

 One was that of Nero, whose head was ornamented with a corona 

 radiata, the symbol of divinity ; another was of Claudius ; and the 

 third was of Julia Mamaea, the mother of Severus, whose face was 

 singularly beautiful and expressive, and the head dress a diadem and 

 wig. 



The papers for the evening were — 



On Magnetic Variation, and the Peoceedings of the LivERrooi, 

 Compass Committee, by W. W. Rundell, Esq.; and 



