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 INTELLIGENCE, 



AND 



M I S C E LLANEOUS ARTICLES. 



KOVAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



-i- O our preferit number we have prefixed a linking 

 nefs of the Right Hon. and learned Prefident of this Society, 

 a gentleman whole unwearied zeal and princely liberality in 

 promoting every thing that can advance fcience or add to the 

 comforts of mankind, place him far above any eulogy in our 

 power to beftow. We only fpeak the fentiment of the whole 

 philofophical world, when we exprefs our ardent wifh that he 

 may long continue to prefide over that learned Body, to 

 which the world owes fo many difcoveries, and which has 

 made fuch rapid advances fince this Right Hon. Gentleman 

 was called to the chair he lb ably lills-. 



On the 8th of January the Society met for the firft time 

 (ince the Chriltmas recefs, when the conckifion of Doctor 

 Young's paper on the mechanifm of the eve was read. 



An appendix by Dr. Herfchel, to his paper on the power 

 of penetrating fpace by means of telefcopes, was read. The 

 means extend fo far as to difcover nebulae, the light of 

 which, according to the velocity aferibed to that fluid, mult 

 have been one million nine hundred and ten thoufand years 

 coming to this earth ! 



A paper on impofiible quantities, by Mr. Woodhoufe, 

 was read the fame evening. 



Jan. 15, a letter by Mr. William Hay was read, giving 

 an account of a fliip fpringing a leak in the Indian feas. 

 The water, which gained fo fafi as to render it impoilible, 

 by pumps and the ufual means, to prevent the fhip from 

 finking, was fortunately flopped by pouring rice into that 

 part of the (hip. The rice in four days diflblved, and in 

 about eight days after became fo hard that with difficulty 



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