138 Horticultural Society. — Astronomical Society. 



L.S. ; Henry Warburton, Esq. F.R.S. — Secretaries: Charles 

 Lyell, Esq. F.L.S. ; George Poulett Scrope, Esq.; Thomas 

 Webster, Esq. — Foreign Secretary: Henry Heuland, Esq. — 

 Treasurer: John Taylor, Esq. — Cou7icil: Hon. Henry Grey 

 Bennet, M.P. F.R.S. & H.S. ; Richard Bright, M.D. F.R.S. ; 

 Sir Henry Bunbury, Bart. ; Henry Burton, Esq. ; William 

 Clift, Esq. F.R.S.; Henry Thomas Colebrooke, Esq. F.R.S. 

 L. & E. F.L. & Asiat. S. ; George Bellas Greenough, Esq. 

 F.R. & L.S.; Thomas Horsfield, M.D. F.L.S. ; Gideon 

 Mantel!, Esq. F.L.S. ; Hugh Duke of Northumberland, K.G. 

 F.H.S. ; William Hasledine Pepvs, Esq. F.R.S. L.S. & H.S. ; 

 John Vetch, M.D. 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Feb. 1. — The silver medal of the Society was presented to 

 Mr. George Lindley, a corresponding member of the Society, 

 for his paper on a classification of peaches, printed in the 

 Transactions. 



The following papers were read: — Upon the apparently 

 beneficial effects of ]irotecting the stems of fruit-trees from 

 frost in early spring. By Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq. F.R.S. 

 &c. President. — On the management of hot-house flues, so as 

 to keep up an equal temperature during the night. By the 

 Rev. George Swayne, corresponding member of the Society. 



Feb. 15. — The following paper was read: — On forcing 

 established cheri-y-trees under glass. By Mr. Thomas Allen. 



ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY. 



Feb. 11. — The fifth Annual General Meeting of the Society 

 was this day held at the Society's rooms in Lincoln's Inn 

 Fields, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Coun- 

 cil upon the state of the Society's affairs, electing Officers for 

 the ensuing year, &c. &c. 



The President, H. T. Colebrooke, Esq. in the chair. 



The Report, which was read by Dr. Gregory, and ordered 

 to be printed for distribution amongst the members, com- 

 menced by expressing tlie gratification felt by the Council 

 on witnessing the growing prosperity of the Society, and the 

 increasing evidence of the utility of its institution. It pro- 

 ceeded to state that, for the purpose of still further alleviating 

 the labour of the practical astronomer (the Society having 

 already published, in part 2. vol. i. of its Memoirs, tables 

 for facilitating the computation of the apparent places of 

 -te principal stars), the Council had deemed it desirable that 

 tables of precession, aberration, and nutation should be com- 

 puted, embracing, 1st, all stars above the 5th magnitude; 



2d. 



