i52 Itoijal Society. 



Mr. De la Beclie will shortly publish a Selection of the 

 Geological Memoirs contained in the Annales des Mines ; 

 together with a Synoptical Table of Equivalent Formations, 

 and M. Brongniart's Table of the Classification of Mixed 

 Rocks, in 1 vol. 8vo. 



Messrs. J. D. C. and C. E. Sowerby are about to publish a 

 Descriptive Catalogue of the Zoological part of their late Fa- 

 ther's Museum ; in five parts, each containing one of the great 

 classes of animals. The first part, including Molhtsca or their 

 Shells, will commence in the spring, and will form, when com- 

 plete, a systematic arrangement of all the known recent and 

 fossil species. It will be illustrated by numerous coloured 

 enjjravinixs. 



XCV. Proceedings of Learned Societies. 



IIOYAL SOCIETY. 



C\^ Monday, December 1, (St. Andrew's Day having fallen 

 ^-^ on a Sunday,) the Fellows of the Royal Society held their 

 Anniversary at Somerset House. At 12 o'clock, when Sir 

 Humphry Davy took the chair, there was a numerous at- 

 tendance of the Fellows, The learned President began the 

 business of the day bj' reading the list of the newly admitted 

 and deceased Members, and on the last occasion paid a tri- 

 bute of respect to the memories of Dr. Jenner, Dr. Hutton, 

 Dr. Baillie, and Col. Lambton, by describing the characteristic 

 labours, virtues, and talents of these eminent men. He then 

 proceeded to state the award by the Council of the Copley 

 Medal to Mr, Pond, the Astronomer Royal, for his various 

 communications published in tlie Transactions of the Royal 

 Society. 



In a discourse, which was received with the most profound 

 attention by the Fellows, the President gave a view of the im^ 

 portant labours which had been carried on in the Royal Ob- 

 servatory since its foundation by Charles II., and which had 

 led to the most important discoveries made in modern times 

 in astronomical science. He entered into an animated pane- 

 gyric of Flamsteed, Halley, Bradley and Maskelyne, and spoke 

 of tlie glory arising to this country from the immediate or ulti- 

 mate results of these researches, which, illustrated by, and 

 throwing light upor, the mathematical laws of the motions of 

 the heavenly bodies developed by our own illustrious Newton 

 and his school, have given to us the true knowledge of the sy- 

 stem of the universe. Fle spoke of the benefits which had been 



conferred. 



