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Mr. Farey's Lists of the new Joint-Stock Companies. 
| Mar. I, 
9 Water-works Companies ; capital about £3,300,000? : viz, 
Holloway Water - works Company.* 
‘Act 50 Geo, III, 1810.—Clerk, George 
-Gude, 5, Furnival’s-Inn, Holborn. 
Gosport and Forton Water-works Com- 
‘pany. 
_ Kent Water-works Company; capital 
£200,000, and shares £100. 
Lea -and Thames Water-works Com- 
pany.—Solicitors, Dennet and Co., King’s 
Arms-yard, Coleman-street. 
London Water Company: now before 
Parliament. 
Metropolitan (Spring) Water - works 
Company ; capital £500,000, shares £50,- 
and deposits £1; see * below.—Solicitors, 
Beetham and Sons, Freeman’s - court, 
Cornhill. 
South London Water-works Company ; 
capital £80,000, and shares £100, 
Thames Water Company (from Rich- 
mond) ; capital £750,000, shares £100, 
and deposits £2.— Solicitors, Freeman 
and Co., Coleman-street. 
United Thames Water Company ; shares 
£100, and deposits £1.—-Solicitors, Wilks 
and Co. [4.] 
1. Wool-stapling Company ; capital, perhaps, £100,000? ?: viz. 
Edinburgh 
Wool Company.—See vol. lviii., p. 565. Fak 
PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 
—— 
ROYAL SOCIETY. 
& PAPER by Captain H. Kater, was 
read (January 13,) entitled a De- 
‘scription of a Floating Collimator: an in- 
strument destined to supply the place of 
‘a level or plumb-line in astronomical ob- 
servations, and to furnish a ready and per- 
fectly exact method of determining the 
position of the horizontal or zenith point, 
‘on the ‘limb of .a circle or zenith sector. 
Jan, 20.—A paper on some improvements 
in the construction of the barometer, by 
J. F. Daniell, Esq., F.R.S., was read ; 
‘and Jan. 27.— A paper on the anatomy of 
'the mole cricket, by John Kidd, M.D., 
ERS. 
LINNZZAN SOCIETY. 
Jan. I8.—A further portion of the Rey. 
Messrs. Sheppard and Whitear’s catalogue 
of Norfolk and Suffolk birds was read. 
ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY. 
Jan. 14.—At the meeting this evening, 
Mr. Baily laid on the table, for the inspec- 
* I have introduced this Company, because its 
advertisements have repeatedly of late been before 
the public; and because, like the Portsea Water- 
works Company, they each about the same period 
sunk deep wells, erected steam-engines, and laid 
down mains and pipes for supplying their respective 
neighbourhoods with ‘‘ pure, soft, spring water, from 
below the blue clay;” but, after wasting very large 
‘sums of money, their schemes were necessarily 
‘abandoned, and their works removed.—The Grand 
Junction Company’s deep well, since sunk, ‘‘ through 
the blueclay,” at Norwood, proved too inadequate to 
any supply for their canal, to allow of a steam-engine 
‘being there’erected as proposed: I wish to present 
these facts to the notice of the adventurers in this 
Holloway Company, and also those in the Metro- 
\politan Spring Water Company, abovementioned, 
sand to the consideration of numerous other parties, 
who are very materially interested in the proceedings 
‘which are contemplated, with regard to setting 
powerful engines to work on the metropolitan deep 
ssprings of water, arising out of the fissured chalk 
rock beneath. 
tion of the members, two micrometers, 
which have been recently invented and 
constructed by M. Frauenhofer, of Mu- 
nich: with which, by means of very fine 
lines cut on glass with a diamond point, in- 
a peculiar manner, placed in the focus of 
the telescope, the transits of the smallest 
stars may be observed; the lines appear- 
ing like so many silver: threads suspended 
in the heavens. An engraving of Frauen- 
hofer’s achromatic telescope, now at Dor- 
pat, of 14 feet focus and 9 inches aperture, 
was also submitted to the inspection of the 
members present, by Mr. Herschel. <A 
communication was read from Captain 
Ross, dated Stranraer, 7th August 1824, 
in which he transmits a diagram exhibiting 
his observation of the occultation of Hers- 
chel’s planet by the moon, on the preced- 
ing day, with Ramage’s 25-feet telescope, 
and a power of 500. After this, the read- 
ing of a paper, by Mr. Henry Atkinson, 
of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, “‘ On astrono- 
mical and other refractions; with a con- 
nected inquiry into the law of temperature 
in different latitudes and altitudes,” was 
commenced. 
GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. : 
Jan. 21.—A paper was concluded; en- 
titled ‘‘ On a recent formation of fresh- 
water rock marl in Scotland, with remarks , 
on shell marl, and on the analogy between 
the ancient and modern fresh-water for- 
mations.”” By .Charles Lyell, Esq, Sec. 
G. S. As a principal part of its geolo- 
gical interest is derived from its recent 
origin, the author has drawn. a brief sketch 
of the physical structure of the county of , 
Forfar, in order to explain its position 
more distinctly. The succession of the de- 
posits of sand, shell mar] and rock marl, in 
the lake of the Bakie, now drained, is then 
described. The shells and plants, inclosed 
in the rock, are the same as those in the 
soft shell marl, and are still all living, in the 
wates 
