480 Royal Society. 
resins, all of which evinced the same appearances, and 
obeyed the general law. 
Nov. 30. St. Andrew’s day being the anniversary of the 
Society, the members met and proceeded to the election of a 
President and Council for the ensuing year, when the fol- 
lowing members were chosen. 
Council for the year 1813. 
Right Honourable Sir Joseph | The Right Hon, the Earl of 
Banks, Bart. K. B. Pre- Morton. 
sident. | *Thomas Murdoch, Esq. 
Sir Charles Blagden, Knut. | John Pond, Esq. 
Samuel Goodenough, Lord | *Edward Rudge, Esq. 
Bishop of Carhsle, V.P. | *Sir George Thomas Staun- 
Taylor Combe, Esq. Sec. ton, Bart. 
* Astley Cooper, Esq. Smithson Tennant, Esq. 
*George Bellas Greenough, | Rev. William Tooke. 
Esq. *Willlam Charles Wells, 
*Thomas Harrison, Esq. M.D. 
Samuel Lysons, Esq. Trea- | *Giffin Wilson, Esq. 
surer. William Hyde Wollaston, 
*The Right. Hon. the Earl| M.D. Sec. 
of Mansfield. Thomas Young, M. D. 
*Francis Maseres, Esq. Foreign Sec. 
Those marked thus * were not of the Council last year. 
The Council having adjudged the Copleyan medal to 
Mr. Brande, for his various papers inserted in the Transac- 
tions of the Society, the President then delivered it to him 
with an eloquent address, in which he took a philosophi- 
cal and critical review of Mr. Brande’s labours, admo- 
nished him fervently to persevere in his glorious. career, 
and predicted his attaining the bighest eminence in science. 
Sir Joseph, with his usual acuteness aud correct knowledge 
of men and things, having anticipated the success of this 
young chemist, felt himself disposed to encourage bis ar- 
dour, praise his talents, and exhibit a popular view of the 
result of his researches. The right Hon. President then 
noticed Mr. B.’s experiments developing the difference be- 
tween the various species of urinary calculi; his experi- 
ments on the blood, proving that its red colour is not de- 
rived from iron as commonly supposed, that its serum 
contains no gelatine, and his ingenious analysis of the 
colopring matter of this vital fluid; his discovering of the 
use of magnesia in caiculous diseases, and the effects of acids 
and alkalies in such cases; and his experiments proving 
that alcoho! is a product of fermentation and not ent 
ation. 
