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form, as‘if they had either absorbed or repelled the light from 
their immediate vicinity. 
The same appearance, the Astronomer Royal remarks, is 
observable in the trapezium, round the four stars of which the 
light has also receded analogously, leaving them on a com- 
paratively dark ground. He conjectures that the stars have 
been the immediate cause of the disappearance of the light ; 
and therefore he wishes to draw the attention of astronomers 
to the pheenomenon, as it seems to deserve a marked attention. 
The Astronomer Royal has noticed a similar appearance, 
still more decidedly, in another part of the same nebula at some 
minutes distance from the trapezium. 
2. There was read a communication from Colonel Mark 
Beaufoy, a member of the Council of this Society. It contains 
Ist. Observed transits of the moon and of moon-culmina- 
ting stars, over the middle wire of his transit instrument at 
Bushey Heath in Sidereal time. These were observed in the 
course of 1825, and amount to 322. 
2dly. Occultations of stars by the moon, in number 6. 
3dly. Observations of two lunar eclipses, in 1825. 
4thly. Observations of eclipses of Jupiter’s satellites, in 1825, 
at Bushey Heath. These amount to twenty-five, and the 
results are given both in Bushey and Greenwich, mean time. 
There was also read a communication from Major J. A. 
Hodgson, of the 61st Bengal Native Infantry, Revenue Sur- 
veyor General, residing at Futty Ghur, on the Ganges. This 
letter records seventy-five observations of the eclipses of Ju- 
piter’s satellites, made at Futty Ghur (latitude 27° 21! 35" N.) 
in the autumn of 1824 and spring of 1825. Some of these 
observations were made by Major Hodgson himself, and others, 
under his superintendance, by young men who are his appren- 
tices in the Revenue Survey Department. The names of the 
several observers are given :—each observation has its appro- 
priate meteorological indications registered :—and the natures, 
powers, and qualities, of the telescopes employed, are respec- 
tively described. These observations, compared with corre- 
sponding observations of the same phenomena in any places 
whose longitude have been accurately ascertained, will serve 
to determine the longitude of Major Hodgson’s observatory. 
An Address delivered at a special General Meeting of the Astro- 
nomical Society of London, on presenting the Gold Medals to 
J. I.W. Herscuer, Esg., J. Souru, Esg., and Professor 
Srruve, on April 14, 1826, by Francis Barry, Esq. F R.S. 
LS. §& GS. MRA. and President of the Society. 
The Members of the Astronomical Society are convened 
together 
