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 INTELLIGENCE, 



AND 



MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES. 



LEARNED SOCIETIES. 



ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON* 



lHE fittings of the 17th November, the nth and 18th 

 December, were occupied in reading an intending paper on 

 the mechanifm df the eye, by Dr. Young* 



St. Andrew's day falling on a Sunday, the anmverfary 

 taeeting was held on the ift of December. The auditor'* 

 report on the ftate of the finances of the Society was read. 

 The names of the new members, thofe deceafed, and thofe 

 withdrawn, were declared 3 and the names of the officers juft 

 defted were announced. The Right Hon. Prefident then 

 addreffed the Society, congratulating them on the progrefs 

 of faience in the laft year, and concluded by informing 

 them that Sir Godfrey Copley's medal was adjudged to 

 Mr H. Howard for his paper on fulminating mercury. Sir 

 Jofeph Banks then informed the Society that Mr. Howard 

 had alto difcovered a new fulminating filver, and is now en- 

 gaged on a fubjea that promifes to prove highly mterefting 

 to meteorolqgifts and mineralogies, namely, the analyfis of 

 ftonea that have fallen from the clouds. 



SOCIETY FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF ARTS, 

 MANUFACTURES, AND COMMERCE. 



This Society, which has rendered much fervice to the 

 arts by its numerous premiums, that its efforts may, if pof- 

 fihlc, be rendered ftill more generally ufeful, has juft circu- 

 lated the following notice : . 

 O o » Adelphi, 



