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Feb. 7, 1816. A paper “ On a new Process for obtaining pure 
Silver, with Observations on the Defects of the Processes hitherto 
employed,” was read by M. Donovan, Esq. Secretary. 
We forbear giving any further account of this paper for the 
present, as we shall probably be enabled to give it in full in the 
next month. 
Feb. 21. A ballot having taken place, the following gentle- 
men were elected officers for the current year : 
President, 
Right Hon. George Knox, M.R.J. A. 
Vice Presidents. 
J. Ogilby, M.D. | R. Blake, M.D. M.R.1.A. 
Secretary and Treasurer. 
M. Donovan, Esq. 
Council. 
&. Witter, Esq. A.Carmichael, Esq. M.R.I.A, 
D. Wilson, Esa. J. Tardy, Esq. 
J. Patten, Esq. 
XXXIV. Intelligence and Miscelianeous Articles. 
THE PLANISPHERE OF DENDERA. 
Ix our xivth volume we inserted a copy of the zodiac found in the 
portico of this temple, accompanied with a dissertation thereen 
by the now deceased Dr. Henley. The object of the author was, 
in opposition to the French sceptics, who affected to draw from 
the structure of this curious astronomical monument an inference 
that it was at least 17000 years old, to show from evidence fur- 
_nished by the zodiac itself, that it was not constructed earlier 
than the reign of Augustus. It would appear that the reasoning: 
of Dr. Henley has been considered as conclusive by the learned, 
for we have seen no attempt made to controvert it. a 
Our astronomical readers will be gratified by receiving in the 
present number a plate representing a planisphere found in one 
of the apartments of the same temple, most exquisitely engraved 
by Cardon *, 
Our readers will naturally turn to our xivth volume to examine 
whether 
* For the use of this valuable engraving we are indebted to a circum- 
_ Stance which ought not to be concealed. Examining one day at Mr. 'Vay- 
lor’s the numbers already published of the work entitled “ Eayrr,” (noticed 
in-our last,) the sight of this planisphere brought on some conversation re- 
_ lative to the progress which the Eyyptians must have made in astronomy, 
The 
