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9. To MuNGO Ponton, Esq. F. R. S. E., late V. P. S. A.,— for the 

 ingenuity displayed by him in the Model and Description of his 

 Improved Electric Telegraph; — read and exhibited 10th Janu- 

 ary and 20th June 1838, when Mr Ponton presented his elegant 

 Model to the Society, to be placed in their Museum. (492.) 

 The Societtfs Honorary Silver Medal. 



10. To John Scott Russell, M.A., F.R.S.E., and V.P.S.A., 



for Drawings and Description of the best Method of Constructing 

 the Interior of Buildings intended for the accommodation of 

 Auditors and Spectators, and its application to Lecture Rooms, 

 Churches, and Music Rooms ; by arranging the seating accord- 

 ing to certain Isacoustic and Iseidomal Curves ; — read l6th May 

 1838, (542), and ordered to be printed in the Transactions. 

 The Society's Honorary Silver Medal. 



11. To Charles Heath Wilson, Esq. R.I. A. Assoc. Royal Scot. 

 Acad., 8 Northumberland Street, Edinburgh, for his Essay on 

 the Expediency of forming National Establishments for Mould- 

 ing and Casting Works of Art, with Observations on the im- 

 provements which would result from the adoption of such a 

 measure ; — read 28th March 1838. (555.) Printed in the So- 

 ciety's Transactions 1838. 



The Society's Honorary Silver Medal. 



Your Committee beg leave to report, that there has been no com- 

 petition for the following Prizes : 



2d Prize, Society's Silver Medal value Ten Sovereigns. 



6th Do. Five 



11th Do. The Society's Honorary Silver Medal. 



Before concluding their Report, your Committee beg to propose, 

 that, — while Thanks are due to all those Gentlemen who have sent 

 Communications to the Society, — the special Thanks of the Society 

 should be given to the following Gentlemen for their respective Com- 

 munications, viz. : — 



1. To Robert Bald, Esq. F.R.S.E. Mining Engineer, Edinburgh, 

 for his Plan for Feeding Marine Steam-Engine Boilers with 

 Water;— exhibited 11th April 1838, (549.) which the Com- 

 mittee reported " to possess all the advantages of the other plans, 

 and none of the complication, and that it could be used with ad- 

 vantage, only it is not a self-acting feeder, as it requires the at- 

 tention of the engineer — but it is exceedingly simple." This 

 Communication was not a competing one. 



2. To John Scott Russell, M.A., F.R.S.E., V.P.S.A., for his 



Communication on the same subject; — read 11th April 1838; 

 (543.) —which was almost identical with the preceding, and of 



