Chemical Society. 317 
The President then, addressing Mr. Baily, continued as follows :— 
Mg; Baily,—I present you with this medal in the name of the 
Society for which you have done so much, as the highest testimony 
which they have power to bear to the splendid service which you have 
rendered to the science of Astronomy. I thank you in their name 
for the care which you have taken of the honour of the Society, 
and for the augmentation which it has received from your labours. 
And to our sincere congratulations upon the providential escape 
whic. you experienced, during the prosecution of your inquiry, 
from a sudden and violent death, I add the expression of our 
earnest hope that you may long be spared to continue your services 
in the advancement of knowledge, and to enjoy that well-earned 
fame which will wait upon your life and your memory. 
The following Fellows were then elected as Council for the ensuing 
year :— 
President: Francis Baily, Esq., F.R.S.—Vice-Presidents : 
George Biddell Airy, Esq., M.A. F.R.S., Astronomer Royal ; 
Augustus De Morgan, Esq.; Rev. George Fisher, M.A. F.R.S. ; 
Lord Wrottesley, M.A. F.R.S.—Treasurer : George Bishop, Esq. 
—Secretaries: Thomas Galloway, Esq., M.A. F.R.S.; Rev. 
Robert Main, M.A.—Foreign Secretary : Captain W. H. Smyth, 
R.N. K.S.F. D.C.L. F.R.S.— Council: Samuel H. Christie, Esq., 
M.A. F.R.S.; Rev. W. Rutter Dawes; Thomas Jones, Esq., 
F.R.S.; John Lee, Esq., LL.D. F.R.S.; Captain W. Ramsay, 
R.N.; Edward Riddle, Esq.; Richard W. Rothman, Esq.; Rev. 
Richard Sheepshanks, M.A. F.R.S.; Lieut. William S. Stratford, 
R.N. F.R.S.; Charles B. Vignoles, Esq. 
CHEMICAL SOCIETY. 
(Continued from vol. xxi. p. 389.] 
November 1, 1842.—Mr. Warington presented part of a cast-iron 
grating which had been subjected to the occasional action of slightly 
acid liquids for several years, and which exhibited the partial removal 
of the metal, while the residual graphite retained the original form. 
The following communications were then read :-— 
51. ‘* On Heat of Combinations,” Part I., by Thomas Graham, 
Esq., F.R.S. (This paper will be inserted in an early Number of 
the Philosophical Magazine.) 
52. “On Pyrogallic Acid,” by John Stenhouse, Ph.D. (In- 
serted at p. 279. of the present Number.) 
53. “ On the Analysis of Organic Substances containing Nitro- 
gen,” by George Fownes, Ph.D. 
The circumstance which led to the present note on the analysis 
of azotized organic bodies, was an attack lately made by M. Reiset 
on the new method of determining the nitrogen in such cases, put 
