Proceedings of the Royal Society. 357 
The Croonian Lecture was read by Francis Bauer, Esq. It 
contained an account of the Suspension of the Muscular Motion 
of the Vibrio Tritici. 
Saturday, November 30, being St. Andrew’s day, the Society 
held their anniversary meeting. 
The Copley Medal was given to the Rev. William Buckland*. 
The following were elected Members of the Council for the 
year ensuing : 
1. Members of the Old Council re-elected. 
Sir H. Davy, Bart. 
W. T. Brande, Esq. 
Samuel Goodenough, Lord Bishop of Carlisle. 
Taylor Combe, Esq. 
Davies Gilbert, Esq. 
Charles Hatchett, Esq. 
J.¥F. W. Herschell, Esq. 
Sir E. Home, Bart. 
John Pond, Esq. 
W. H. Wollaston, M.D. 
Thomas Young, M.D. 
* We are giad to learn that the propriety of regularly publishing these 
excellent discourses in the Philosophical Transactions has been suggested to 
the President, and we trust that he will accede to the suggestion, since it 
will in various ways contribute to the welfare of science in this country. 
They will furnish a gratifying record to those individuals who receive the 
medal; they will stimulate others to deserve such mark of distinction ; 
and they will furnish the public with an elegant and succinct history of 
several branches of science. 
It is to be regretted that the late Sir Joseph Banks’s dissertations upon 
the same occasions have not been collected, revised, and published. They 
were clear, manly, and sensible compositions ; his reading and information, 
which were very extensive, were always brought to bear with singular 
felicity, upon the subject before him, and we remember many of his ad- 
dresses from the chair upon these occasions, which were much too lumi- 
nous and instructive to be consigned to oblivion, among the unpublished ar- 
chives of the Society. If the power of publishing Sir Joseph’s discourses 
be, as we presume it is, vested in the Council of the Royal Society we trust 
that it will be acted upon. 
