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Thursday, December 5. The Right Hon. Robert Peel, Cap- 
tain R, Z. Mudge, and Sir John Fenton Boughey, Bart., were 
Proceedings of the Royal Society. 
2. Members of the Society, chosen into the Council, 
Charles Babbage, Esq. 
Sir Gilbert Blane, Bart. 
Charles Lord Colchester. 
J. W. Croker, Esq. 
John Earl of Darnley. 
Sir H. Halford, Bart. 
Charles Hutton, L.L.D. 
Captain H. Kater. 
W. H. Pepys, Esq. 
Joseph Sabine, Esq. 
Officers for the ensuing Year. 
PRESIDENT.—Sir H. Davy, Bart. 
TREAsSURER.—Davies Gilbert, Esq., M.P. 
SECRETARIES.—William Thomas Brande, Esq. 
Taylor Combe, Esq. 
elected into the Society. 
The reading of the Croonian Lecture was resumed and con- 
cluded. 
Thursday, December 12. A Paper was communicated by 
Dr. Wollaston, on Metallic Titanium. A Paper was also com- 
municated by Sir E. Home, on the Structure of the Membrana 
Tympani and Internal Ear of the Elephant. 
Thursday, December 19. Dr. Daubeny was elected into the 
Society. 
A Paper on the Chinese Year, by J. F. Davis, Esq., F.R.S., 
was read. 
