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sence : the inilividual is Mr. Joseph Came, a gentleman to whom 

 the Society is not only indebted for many of its most valuable com- 

 munications, but for the uniform and strenuous support he has al- 

 ways given it. 



The Council cannot close their Report, without calling the atten- 

 tion of the meeting to the severe loss which they and the whole sci- 

 entific world have sustained during the last year, by the deaths of 

 two of the most emirfent honorary members of the Society, Dr. Wol- 

 laston, and their renowned and illustrious countryman, ISir Humphry 

 Davy, Bart. (By Order) E. C. Giddy, 



October 16th, 1829. Secretary. 



The following papers have been read since the last meeting : — 



1. Some observations made in Cornwall, in the summer of 1829. By 

 John Hawkins, Esq. F.R.S. Honorary Member of the Society. — 



2. Description of Happy Union Tin Stream Work at Pentuan, in the 

 parish of St. Austle, Cornwall, with some observations thereon. By- 

 Mr. J. W. Colenso. — 3. On the use of iron among the early nations 

 of Europe. By Thomas Hingston, M.D. Librarian of the Society. — 



4. Geological notices in Italy. By the Rev. Samuel J. Trist. — 



5. Observations made at St. Michael's Mount. By John Hawkins, 

 Esq. — 6. Appendix to a paper, on the Tin Stream Works of Corn- 

 wall. By Wm. J. Henwood, F.G.S. Member of the Society. — 

 7. Notice of pseudo-morphous cj-ystals of tin, found in Wheal Coates, 

 St. Agnes. By Stephen Davey, Esq. Member of the Society. 



At the anniversary meeting, held on the 16th Oct. 1829, Davies 

 Gilbert, Esq. M.P. P.R.S. S;c. 8cc. President, m the chair ;— the Re- 

 port of the Council being read, it was resolved, That it be printed 

 and circulated. 



Officers and Council for the present year: — President: Davies 

 Gilbert, Esq. M.P. P.R.S., &c. SiC— Vice-Presidents: John Haw- 

 kins, Esq. F.R.S. ; Lieut. General Tench ; John Samuel Enys, Esq. ; 

 Robert Were Fox, Esq. — Secretary: E.C. Giddy, Esq. — Librarian: 

 'i'homas Hingston, M.D. — Treasurer : Joseph Carne, Esq. — Assist- 

 ant Secretary: R. Moyle, Esq. — Council: Thomas Peel, Esq.; 

 Thos. Bolitho, Esq.; Samuel Borlase, Esq.; George Harvey, Esq.; 

 G. C. Fox, Esq.; Wm. Millett Boase, M.D.; Richard Fox, M.D,; 

 Stephen Davcy, Esq.; Rev. C.V. Le Grice; John Armstrong, Esq. 



David Brewster, L.L.D. F.R.S. &.C., and the Rev. W. V. Vernon, 

 M A. F.R.S. President of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, were 

 elected Honorary Members of the Society. 



XX I L Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles. 



M. ALDINl's INCOMBUSTIBLE DRESS FOR FIREMEN. 



AT the request of M. Aldini, a commission was named by tlie 

 Academy of Sciences, at Paris, composed of MM. Fourier, Du- 

 long, Chevreul, Flourens, and Gay Lussac, to examine the dress 

 constructed by him for the protection of firemen from the action of 

 the flames, and to report upon it. M. Aldini, in consequence, ex- 

 plained to these gentlemen the principle of his invention, and in- 

 vited them to witness some experiments at the station of the fire- 

 men 



