Hoyal Society. 45/ 



The First Part of Volume IV. of the Geological Transactionj 

 has just made its appearance. The contents are, 



I. Oi)servations on the Geology of Northumberland and Dur- 

 ham, By N. J. V/inch, Esq. F.L.S. Honorary Member of the 

 Geological Society. — II. On a Whin Dyke traversing Lime- 

 stone in tiie County of Northumberland. By the Hon. Henr/ 

 Grey Eenuet, M.P. F.R.S. Vice President of the Geological So- 

 ciety. — III. Description of an insulated Group of Rocks of 

 Slate and Greenstone in Cumberland and Westmoreland on the 

 east Side of Appleby, between Melmerby and Murton. By the 

 Rev, W. Buckland, Professor of Mineralogy in the University of 

 Oxford, and Member of the Geological Society. 



XCV. Proceedings of Learned Societies, 



ROYAL SOCIETY. 



i HE 2J>th of November, beingthe anniversary of this Society, the 

 following election of officers took place for the ensuing year. 



On examining the lists it appeared that the following gentlemen 

 were elected. 



The Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. G.C.B. President, 



Samuel Lysons, Esq. Treasurer. 



Taylor Combe, Esq. "| ^ . 



William Thomas Brand, Esq. j * 



Of the Old CounciL Of the New Council, 



Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, W. T, Brande, Esq, 



Bart. G.CB. J. G, Children, Esq. 



John Barrow, Esq. J. W. Croker, Esq. M.P, 



Samuel Goodenough, Lord Bi- Chas. Konig, Esq. 



sliop of Carlisle. Alex. MacLeay, Esq. 



Taylor Combe, Esq. Alex. Marcet, M.D. 



Sir Humphry Davy,Knt.LL.D. Colonel Wm. Mudge. 

 Sir Everard Home, Bart. W. H. Pepys, Esq. 



Samuel Lysons, Esq. George John Earl Spencer. 



George Earl of Morton, Sir John Thomas Stanley, Bt. 



John Pond, Esq. Aslr. Royal. 

 Wiiliam HydeWollaston, M.D. 

 Thomas Young, M.D. 



December 5. — Mr. Todd, through the hands of Sir Everard 

 Home, communicated the result of some additional experiments 

 made on Torpedoes at La Rochelle. The subjects he now ope- 

 rated on were one 8 and the other 18 inches long, but they dc- 

 v(lope(! no new facts. He found the shocks greater, as might he 

 expected, by improving the conductors, in applying the one hand 



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