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Domestic and Foreign. 



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inaira; the Honoui-able William Anglin 

 Sairlet, Chief Justice ; tlie Honourable 

 William Burge, Attorney- General. — Coun- 

 cil, Honourable Joseph Barnes ; Honour- 

 able Francis Smith ; William Shand, Esq. ; 

 George Mills, Esq ; Edward Tichbone, 

 Esq. ; George Atkinson, Esq. ; William 

 Brooks King, Esq. ; SVilliam Lambie, 

 Esq. ; Charles Mackgla.shan, jun., m. d. ; 

 James Wier, M.d. ; Jacob Adolphus, m.d. ; 

 James Simpson, Esq. ; Honourable James 

 Laing ; Sir M. B. Clare ; John Lunan, 

 Esq. ; Stewart West, m.d. ; William Gor- 

 don, M.D. ; John Ferguson, .m.d.; J. R. 

 Philips, Esq. ; Thomas Higson, E.sq. ; 

 C. S. Cockburn, Esq. ; Rev. W. T. Pater- 

 son ; Alexander Mackintosh, Esq. ; Ro- 

 bert Gray, Esq. 



GEOLOGICAL SOCIETV. 



February 3d. — A paj)er was read,entitled 

 " Remarks on some parts of the Taunus 

 Mountains, in the Duchy of Nassau," by 

 Sir A. Crichton, v.p.g.s., &c. 



February 17. — At the anniversary meet- 

 ing of this society, the following gentle- 

 men were elected officers and council for 

 the ensuing year: — President, .John Bos- 

 tock, M.D., F.R.s. — Vice-President, Sir 

 Alexander Crichton, m.d., f.r. and l.s. 

 Hon. Memb. Imp. Acad. St. Petersburgh ; 

 Rev. W. D. Conybeare, f.r.s.; Wm. Henry 

 Fitton, M.D., F.u.s. ; Charles .Stokes, Esqrs. 

 F.u.A. and L.s. Secretaries, W. J. Bro- 

 derip, Esq., f.l.s. ; R. J. :\Iurcheson,Esq.; 

 Thomas Webster, Esq. Foreign Secretary, 

 Henry Heuland, Esq. Treasurer, John 

 Taylor, Esq., f.r.s. Council : Arthur 

 Aiicin, Esq., f.l.s. ; Henry Thomas De- 

 la-Beche, Esq., r.B.s. and L.s. ; J. E. 

 Bicheno, Esq., Sec. L.s. ; Henry Thomas 

 Colebrooke, Esq., f.r.s.l. and e.f.l., and 

 Asiat. Soc. ; Sir Charles Henry Colvil ; 

 George Bellas Greenough, Esq., f.r. and 

 L.s. ; Sir Charles Lemon, Bart., f.r.s. ; 

 Armand Levy, Esq. ; Charles Lyell, Esq. , 

 F.R., and L.s. ; William Hasledine Pep5-s, 

 Esq., F.R.S., L.S., and H.s. ; George Pou- 

 lett Sci'ope, Esq. ; J. F. Vandercom, Esq. ; 

 Henry Warburton, Esq., f.r.s. 



ASTROXOJnCAL SCtlEXY. 



January 13. — A paper was read " On 

 the co-latitude of his Observatory at Black- 

 heath, as determined by his own observa- 

 tions," by Stephen Groombridge, Esq., 

 f.r.s. a communication was next read 

 from Sir Thomas Brisbane, dated Para- 

 matta, 2d July 1825. The contents of this 

 communication were, 1st. Observations 

 with a repeating circle for the winter sol- 

 stice, 1825, extending from June 12th to 

 July 1, inclusive. These are not yet re- 

 duced. 2. Observations on the inferior 

 conjunction of Venus and the Sun, May, 

 1825, with the mural circle, from May 1, 

 to the 25th, inclusive. 3. Observations on 

 the dip of the magnetic needle, March 1825. 

 The mean of the whole wa* G2^ 41' 35". 



M."M. Ne-r Srries.—Vox.. I. No. 4. 



i. Observations on the declination of the 

 needle in March, April, and May, 1825. 

 The mean of the whole is 8° 59' 48". 

 .5. An abstract of the meteorological jour- 

 nal kept in Paramatta, from April 1824 to 

 April 1825. 



February 10. — The sixth annual general 

 meeting of the Society was this day held 

 at the .Society's rooms in Lincoln's-Inn 

 Fields, for the purpose of receiving the re- 

 port of the council upon the state of the 

 Society's affairs, electing officers for the 

 ensuing year, &c. After the report and 

 treasurer's accounts had been read, the 

 members proceeded to ballot for the officers 

 of tlie ensuing year, when the following 

 were declared to have been duly elected : 



President, Francis Baily, Esq., f.r.s., 

 I..S. and G.s. Vice-Presidents, Rev. John 

 Brinklcy, d.d., f.r.s., Pres. r.f.a. Und. 

 Prof. Astr. Univ. of Dublin; Captain F. 

 Beaufort, r.n., f.r.s. ; Henry Thomas 

 Colebrooke, Esq., f.r.s.l., e.f.l.s., and 

 G.s. and R..\.s. ; Davies Gilbert, Esq., M.P., 

 V.P.R.S., F.I..S., and G.s. Treasurer, Rev. W. 

 Pearson, ll.d., f.r.s. Secretaries, Olin- 

 thus G. Gregorv', ll.d. Prof. Math. 

 Royal Mil. Acad., Woolwich ; Lieutenant 

 William S. Stratford, r.n. Foreign Sec., 

 J. E. W. Herechell, Esq., M.A., sec. R.S., 

 Lond., and F.R.S. Edin. Council; Colonel 

 Mark Beaufoy, f.r.s. and l.s.; Benjamin 

 Gompertz, Esq., F.K.s. ; Stephen Groom- 

 bridge, E.sq., F.n.s. ; James Horsburgh, 

 Esq., F.R.S. ; Daniel Moore, E.sq., f.R-s. 

 S.A., L.S., and G.s. ; Jolin Pond, Esq., 

 F.R.S. Astr. Royal; Ed. Riddle, Esq.; 

 Richard .Sheepshanks, Esq., ji.a. ; W. 

 H. Fox Talbott, E.sq., b.a. ; Edward 

 Troughton, Esq., f.r.s.l., and E. The So- 

 ciety afterwards dined together at tlie Free- 

 masons' Tavern, to celebrate their sixth 

 anniversan,-. 



F O R E I G X. 

 FRANCK. 



Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris. 



Sept. 5th Doctors Sarmetaine, Floiy, 



and Remonet, of IMarseilles, announced in 

 a letter to the Academy their intention of 

 joining Da Costa and others in s'jbmitting 

 to all the experiments necessary to deter- 

 mine the question of the non-contagious or 

 contagious natiu-e of yellow fever. Captain 

 Vane communicated a memoir on circular 

 functions. M. Majendie presented some 

 notes on the history of goitres, by Dr. 

 Poulin, of Santa Fe-de-Bogota. MM. 

 Legendre and Cauchy made a report on 

 M. Berard's memoir, in which he proposes 

 to prove the sole theorem of Fermet tliat 

 has not yet been proved. 



12th — M. Durville presented a MS. 

 memoir on"' the flora of the Malouine isles. 

 M. Ampere communicated some new 

 electro -dynamic experiments. MM. Des- 

 fontaines and Labillardiere made a report on 

 M. A. de Jussieu's memoir on the family 

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