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.Gonville and Caius College; Edmund Storr Halsvvell, M.A., St. 

 John's College; William (iarnons, M.A., Fellow of Sidney College ; 

 '•Henry Edward Fawcett, M.A., Trinity College; W. Miller, M. A., 

 St. John's College, Professor of Mineralogy; James Bowstead, 

 •M.A., Fellow of Corpus Christi College ; Walker Gray, M.A., St. 

 John's College ; J.^mes Cumming, M..^., Trinity College, Professor 

 of Chemistry ; James Dunn, M.A., Trinity College, Dublin. 



Later in the same morning a number of members of the Association 

 assembled near Magdalen Bridge to accompany Professor Buck land 

 on an excursion of some hours, in the course of which he explained 

 the geology of the neighbourhood of Oxford. 



In the course of the session the following Members were elected 

 CouncU and Officers for the ensuing year, who will hold their meet- 

 ings occasionally in London : — 



President — Dr. Buckland. Vice-Presidents — Sir D. Brewster, Rev. W. 

 Whewell. President Elect — Rev. Professor Sedgwick. Vice- 

 Presidents Elect — Dr. Dalton, Professor Airy. General Secre- 

 tary — Rev. W. Vernon Harcourt. Assistant Secretary — John 

 Phillips, Esq. Treasurer — John Taylor, Esq. Trustees — Pro- 

 fessor Babbage, Roderick Impey Murchison, Esq., John Taylor, 

 Esq. Council — Dr. R. Brown, M. \. Brunei, Esq., William 

 Clift, Esq., Rev. J. Corrie, J. D. Forbes, Esq., Davies Gilbert, 

 D.C.L., J. H. Green, Esq., G. B Greenough, Esq., Sir John 

 Herschel, Professor Hamilton, Professor Hooker, J. F. W. John- 

 {. ston,Esq., Dr. Lloyd (Dublin), Dr.Luby (ditto). Rev. J. Peacock, 

 Dr. Pritchard, J. Robison, Esq., Rev. W. Scoresby, Rev. J. J. 

 Taylor, Dr. Traill, N. A. Vigors, Esq. Secretaries to the Council — 

 Dr. E. Turner,Rev. James Yates. Secretaries at Cambridge — 

 Professor Henslow, Rev, W. Whewell. Secretaries at Oxford — 

 Dr. Daubeny, Rev. B. Powell. 

 We hope to give in our next Number a complete li.st of the Reports 

 of clie progress of various branches of science which were read during 

 the session, and which, we understand, will be published in a volume, 

 together with the Report of Proceedings. 



XVIII. Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles. 



SAFETY-TUBE FOR THE COMBUSTION OF THE MIXED GASES 

 OXYGEN AND HYDROGEN, INVENTED BY MR. HEMMING. 



A CYLINDER about six inches long and three-quarters of an 

 inch wide, filled Ivith very fine brass wires, in lengths equal to the 

 tube. A pointed rod of metal, one-eighth of an inch thick, is then 

 forcibly inserted through the centre of the bundle of wires in the tube, 

 by which they are wedged more closely together. The interstices 

 between the wires, which are exceedingly small, are then in effect a 

 series of metallic tubes of very minute diameter: the cooling and 

 conducting power of these is far greater than could be produced if a 

 cylinder of equal length were filled with discs of wire gauze, as the 

 apertures are much smaller than those in the finest gauze, and there 



