454 lloyal Sucidy. 



W. T. Biande, Esq.; the Lord Bisliop of Carlisle: Taylor 

 Combe, Esq.; J. W. Croker, Esq.; Davies Gilbert, Esq.; 

 Charles Hatchett, Esq. ; Sir Everard Home, Bart. ; .John 

 Poml, Esq.; W.H. Wollaston, M.D.; Thomas Young, M.D. 

 Of the Nerv Council. — AVilliam Allen, Esq.; Major Thomas 

 Colby; James Ivory, Esq.; Sir .Tames M'Gregor, Bart.; 

 William Marsden, Esq. ; W. G. Maton, M.D. ; His Grace 

 the Duke of Norfolk ; Edward Rudge, Esq. ; William 

 Sotheby, Esq. ; Henry Warburton, Esq. 



President. — The Right Hon. Sir H. Davy, Bart. 

 Treasurer. — Davies Gilbert, Esq. 



Secretaries. — W. T. Brande and Taylor Combe, Esqrs. 

 Foreign Secretary. — Thomas Young, M.D. 

 Dec. 11. — A paper was read. On the Nature of the Acid 

 and Saline Matter usually existing in the Stomachs of Ani- 

 mals, by William Prout, M.D. F.R.S. ; and the reading was 

 commenced of An Inquiry respecting the supposed Heating 

 Effect beyond the red End of the Spectrum, by B. Powell, 

 M.A., of Oriel College, Oxford. 



John Bayley and George Townley, Esqrs., were admitted 

 Fellows of the Society ; and ]MM. Fourier and Vaucjuelin 

 were elected Foreign Members. 



Dec. 18. — A communication was read On the North Polar 

 Distances of the principal Fixed Stars, by J. Brinkley, D.D. 

 P.R.I. A. F.R.S. This paper, as far as we could judge of it, 

 appeared to be a direct attack on Mr. Pond's recent doctrine 

 relative to a southerri motion of the fixed stars. The learned 

 author adduces observations of Bradley in 1728, of Cassini in 

 France in 1740, of Dr. Maskelyne at Schehallien, of Piazzi 

 at Palermo, of Mudge in England in 1802, and of Lambton 

 in Hindostan in 1805 ; and endeavours to show that the 

 southern motion belongs entirely to the Greenwich instru- 

 ments and observations. The author also complains that his 

 catalogues of 1813 and 1823 are misrepresented by Mr. Pond, 

 in his papers, and that they are even altered from their origi- 

 nal form; for Mr. Pond has diminished the quantities in 

 lir. Brinkley's catalogue, by applying Bradley's refraction, 

 whilst M. Bessel's are left just as they were ; and he is thus 

 enabled to place his own as a mean between them. Dr. 

 Brinkley has subjoined various tables to his paper as con- 

 fii'matory of the points here insisted on ; and the public await 

 with much impatience, their publication, since every thing 

 Avhich comes from ho distinguished an astronomer cannot fail 

 to be interesting and important. 



A paper was also begun. On the Figure requisite to main- 

 tain the Equilibrium of a homogeneous Fluid Mass that re- 

 volves upon an Axis, by James Ivory, Esq., M.A. F.R.S. 



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