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The following candidates were duly admitted as ordinary 

 members, viz. : — 



J. G. Hopkirk, Esq., LL.B. W.S., 75, Great King Street ; Gilbert Laurie 

 Finlay, Esq., "W.S., 130 George Street. 



In terms of Law XI. the Society elected the following office- 

 bearers for the ensuing year : 



President, Sir John Graham Dalyell, Kt., F.A.S — Vice-Presidents, David 

 B. Reid, M.D., F.K.S.E. ; Mungo ronton, W.S., Y .U.^.Y..— Secretary, James 

 Tod — Foreign Secretary, Alexander Adie, F.R.S.E. — Treasurer, G. Maijori- 

 banks Curator of Museum, John Dunn, and twelve ordinary Counsellors. 



In terms of Law XIII. the Society appointed a Committee to audit the 

 Treasurer's books, and to report thereupon, and generally on the state of the 

 funds of the Society, at next meeting. The books were laid on the table. 



SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 



METEOROLOGY. 



1. Storm at Constanfmople. — Extract from a letter from Ad- 

 miral Roussin to M. Arago regarding certain periodical storms 

 at Constantinople. — " Last night (the 10th August) we had a 

 violent storm ; it is periodical, and occurs almost every year 

 between the 10th and the 15th August. This storm com- 

 menced in the south, and then veered to the north, approach- 

 ing the Black Sea, its ordinary domain. It lasted from one 

 o'clock in the morning to daybreak with great violence, and ac- 

 companied by a furious rain; the lightning struck three points 

 near to one another ; at Pera, at the embassy of Denmark, and 

 at that of Spain it broke the doors, burnt the carpets and cur- 

 tains, but without touching the panes of glass. The other stroke 

 fell on a small Greek vessel, broke its mast, killed a man, and 

 wounded another. At other times storms are by no means fre- 

 quent here ; I have never seen more than three or four in a year." 



2. Great Meteor observed at Paris on the %\st September 1837. 

 (Note communicated to the Academy by M. Mauvais, pupil at the 

 Obser^'atory.)— " On Thursday 21st September 1837, at 7h. 48' 

 mean time, as I was crossing the square of the Pantheon, on my 

 way to the Observatory, I suddenly perceived a dazzling ball, 

 which produced so great a light thatobjects threw adistinct shadow. 

 It commenced its course from a point situated at nearly an equal 



