390 Roi/ul Soc' li). — Linnccan Socielij. 



Supplementary Plates are 8 in number, and are beautifully excciittd; 

 Tabt). I. to 111. illustrate Mr. Vigors's account in No. IV. of the genus of Pi</- 

 tacida:, which he has called /V«/yfe(ci« ; Tub. IV. represents Pij/ /«(■»« ;>j/;- 

 rhoptcnis, also described by that naturalist; and Tab. V. to Vlll. are 

 Thamiivpliili, decribed by Dr. Such. 



LXII. Proceedings of Learned Societies, 



ROYAL 80CIETY. 



May 5.— PROFESSOR BARLOW, F.R.S., in a letter to 

 -*- Mr. Herschel, communicated a paper On the 

 magnetism imparted to iron bodies by rotation. 



May 12. — A paper was read On the magnetism produced 

 in an iron plate by rotation ; by S. H. Christie, Esq. A.M. 

 F.R.S. 



May 19. — A paper was read, entitled A Description of the 

 Transit-Instrument by Dollond, erected at the Observatory at 

 Cambridge ; by Robert Wood house, A.M. F.R.S. : and Pro- 

 fessor Buckland communicated a paper On the fossil elk of 

 Ireland; by Thomas Weaver, M.R.I. A., &c. 



LINNiEAN SOCIETY. 



May 3. — The President (Sir J. E. Smith) in the Chair. — 

 Professor Fr. A. Bonelli, and M. Ch. Sigismund Kunth were 

 chosen to fill the two vacancies in the list of Foreign Mem- 

 bers. The remaining part of Messrs. Sheppard and Whit- 

 ear's paper on the Birds of Norfolk and Suffolk was read : 

 it concluded with a table of the times of the migration of 

 various species^ as observed at several places in those counties 

 for a series of years. A further portion of Dr. Hamilton's 

 Commentary was also read. 



May 24. — The Anniversary of the Linnagan Society was 

 held on this day at one o'clock, at the Society's house in Soho 

 Square, Sir J. E. Smith, President, in the Chair ; when the 

 following were chosen Officers for the ensuing year. 



Sir James Edward Smith, M.D. F.R.S., &c. President; 

 Edward Forster, Esq. F.R.S. &c. Treasurer ; 

 James E. Bicheno, Esq. Secretary ; 

 Richard Taylor, Esq. Assistant Secretary. 

 The Vice-presidents of the preceding year were re- 

 appointed : viz. Samuel, Lord Bishop of Carlisle, LL.D 

 V.P.R.S. F.A.S.; A.B. Lambert, Esq. F.R.S. A.S. and H.S.; 

 Wm. Geo. Maton, M.D. F.R.S. and A.S. Edward, Lord 

 Stanley, M.P. F.H.S.; 



The following gentlemen were appointed to fill up the va- 

 cancies in the Council : — James E. Bicheno, Esq. ; Edward 



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