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mrxtter, the colmiring of the Map ; in very numerous instances, 

 tlie Lines engravev, as directions to the Persons v/ho colour, do 

 not correspond at all ivitk the limits of the Colours! ; through 

 which, and also through the want of an engraved Niimber, corre- 

 sponding with the number belonging to the Group, in each patch 

 of Colour, in the Map, and through different copies of the Map, 

 differing in their colouring, &c.&c. very great uncertainties must 

 ever attend, the consulting and depending on this highly boasted 

 Map. I am 



Your obedient servant, 



Howland-street, Fitzroy-square, JoHN FaREY Sen. 



May 15, 1S20. 



LXVI. Proceedings of Learned Societies, 



ROYAL SOCIETY. 



April 20. — JL wo papers were read : one on an improvement in, 

 the Eye Tables of Achromatic Telescopes of a small size, by Mr. 

 Kitchener ; and the otUer on the different qualities of the Albur- 

 num of Spring and Winter-felled Oak Trees^ by Thomas Andrevy 

 Knight, Esq. 



27. Read, a paper by Samuel Ware, Esq. on the Properties 

 of Domes and their Abutment Walls. 



Mav 4. Read two papers : one on Diarrhoea Asthenics, by 



Hood, Assistant-Surgeon ; the other on the Formation of 



the Canal for containing the Spinal Marrow ; and of the Fins of 

 the Proteosaurus, by Sir Everard Home. 



11. An account was read of some experiments made by Mr. 

 F. Bauer on the colouring matter of the Red Snow found h\ 

 Baffin's Bay. 



IS. Re;id a communication from Sir Thomas S. Raffles, con- 

 taining some account of the Dugong. 



Early in this month the venerable and much respected Presi- 

 dent of the Society (Sir Joseph Banks) intimated to the Council, 

 that from the increasing infirmities attendant on his advanced 

 period of life, he was desirous of giving in his resignation, and 

 rjeconimending them to look out for a fit successor to the high 

 office vviiich he has so long filled with universal satisfaction to 

 lh« literary and scientific public. Inconsequence, however, of 

 an earnest and affectionate remonstrance which has been since 

 made by the Members of the Council, accompanied with strong 

 a^burances of their disposition to do every thing they indivIduaUy 

 can to relieve him of the arduous duties of the situation. Sir Jo- 

 seph has consented to abandon his intention of resignation for 

 the present. Such a mark of respect u a? uo more than what wa« 



