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land is highly instructive, and merits the closest attention of 
geologists ; but like all technical descriptions, itis of a nature 
not susceptible of abridgement. The following are the names 
of the subordinate rocks which this red sandstone contains. 
Conglomerate, Compact felspar, 
Slate clay, Porphyry, 
laystone, Greenstone, 
Clay ironstone, Pitchstone, ~ 
Trap tuff, - Limestone, 
Amyedaloid, Limestone conglomerate, 
Basalt ? Coal. 
Clinkstone, 
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ROYAL SOCIETY. 
The annual meeting for the election of officers for the ensuing 
year took place on Noy. 30, when the following noblemen and 
gentlemen were elected: . 
President. —Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. G.C.B. &c. 
Secretaries —W. T. Brande, Esq. and Taylor Combe, Esq. 
Treasurer.—Samuel Lysons, Esq. 
There remained of the old Council,- Right. Hon. Sir. J. Banks, 
Bart.; W.T. Brande, Esq.; Lord Bishop of Carlisle ; Taylor 
Combe, Esq.; Sir H. Davy, Bart.; Sir E. Home, Bart.; S. Ly- 
sons, Esq. ; George, Earl of Morton ; John Pond, Esq.; W. H. 
Wollaston, M.D.; T. Young, M.D. 
There were elected into the Council, J. P. Auriol, Esq. ; 
R. Bingley, Esq.; Sir T. G. Cullam, Bart.; John, Earl of Darn- 
ley ; S. Davis, Esq.; Sylvester, Lord Glenbervie ; Major-Gen. 
Sir J. W. Gordon, K.C.B.; Sir A. Johnston, Knight; Rev. R. 
Nares ; Sir G. T. Staunton, Bart. 
At this meeting, the Copley medal was voted to Mr. R. Sep- 
pings, for his various improvements in the construction of ships, 
communicated to the Royal Society, and published in their 
Transactions. 
Jan. 14.—A paper, by Sir E. Home, was read, on the Corpora 
Lutea. The texture of the ovarium before puberty is loose and 
open, and contains globular cells. After puberty, the corpora 
lutea are found in the substance of the ovarium. In the cow, 
they form a mass of convolutions, which Sir E. compared to 
those of the brain. The ova are formed in the corpora lutea ; and, 
according to our author, exist previously to, and independently 
of, sexual intercourse ; and when the ova.are formed, the corpora 
lutea are destroyed by absorption, whether the contained ova are 
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