384 Lhinean and Astronomical Socielies. 



due to a gentleman who has dedicated a long life and an ample 

 fortune to the promotion of those pursuits for wliich the Society 

 is particularly incorporated, as well as to the general interests of 

 knowledge. 



LINNEAN SOCIETY. 



May 2. The following gentlemen were chosen to fill up six 

 vacancies which had occurred among the foreign memhers : — 



F. E. L. Fischer, M.D. Moscow; Gotthelf Fischer, M.D. Hist. 

 Nat. Prof. Moscow; J. B. de Monnet de Lamarck, ZvoL Pro/'. 

 Inst. Sc. Paris. Soc; Jos. Pavon,^caJ. Rety. Med. Madr. Soc; 

 K. Sprengel, M.D. Bot. Prof. Halle; and C. J. Temminck, Soc. 

 Sc. Hurlerv. Soc. 



And on Wcdnosdav, May 24, the Anniversary of the Society 

 was held at the Society's house in Gerrard-street, Soho, for the 

 election of a Council and Officers for the present year : when 

 the following Members were declared to be of the Council, viz. 



Sir Jas. Edward Smith, M.D. 

 Edward Barnard, Esq. 

 Samuel, Lord Bishop of Car- 

 lisle. 

 Henry Thos. Colebrooke, Esq. 

 Edward Forster, Esq. 

 Sir Alexander Johnston, Knt. 

 AylmerBourke Lambert, Esq. 



Wm. Eiford Leach, M.D. 

 Alexander MacLeay, Esq. 

 Matthew Martin, Esq. 

 Wm. George Maton, M.D. 

 George, Earl of Mountnorris. 

 Joseph Sabine, Esq. 

 Thomas Smith, Esq. 

 Edward, Lord Stanley, M.P. 



And the following were declared to be the Officers for the pre- 

 sent year, viz. 



Sir James Edward Smith, M.D. President, 



Samuel, Lord Bishop of Carlisle, "^ 



Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Esq. \-,r. „ -j » 

 ■r>\ 1 T 1 c. I > vice Presidents, 



Jbdward, Lord Stanley, I 



William George Maton, M.D. J 

 Edward Forster, Esq. Treasurer. 

 Alexander MacLeay, Esq. 1 c * • 

 Mr. Richard Taylor, | Secretaries. 



His Royal Highness Leopold Prince of Saxe Coburg, was also 

 elected an Honorary Member. 



The Members of the Society afterwards dined together at ihe 

 Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen-street, according to annual 

 ttiistom. 



ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. ' 



May 12. — A letter was read from G. Peacock, Esq. of Cam- 

 bridge, respecting the intended new Observatory at Cambridge'. 



Also 



