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researches, with Mr. Bauer's aid as before, to the cold-blooded 

 class of animals. The general successive steps of the process 

 had been ascertained to be the same in both classes. Mr. 

 Bauer's drawings of those which took place in the ovum of the 

 frog were annexed to the paper. 



A'o». 25. — At this meetnig Richard Penn, Esq. was admitted 

 a Fellov/ ; and the name of William Scoresby, Jun. Esq, ordered 

 to be inserted in the printed hsts of the Society : the following- 

 paper was read : — 



A New Method of calculating the Angles under which the 

 Planes of Crystals meet; by W. Whewell, MA. FllS. and Fel- 

 low of Trinity College, Cambridge. 



In this paper, of which the introduction only was read, the 

 details being purely mathematical, the author proposed to sub- 

 stitute for the mode of calculating the angles of crystals hitherto 

 employed, in which different methods are used, according to the 

 relation of the different crystals to their nuclei, a few simple 

 formulae of universal application ; and also to substitute for the 

 arbiti'ary and inelegant notation by which the planes of crystals 

 have heretofore been designated, a simple and expressive nota- 

 tion of corresponding symbols. 



Nov. 30. — This being St. Andrew's Day, the anniversary 

 meeting of the Royal Society was held at the Society's apart- 

 ments in Somerset House. 



The President, Sn- Humphry Davy, took the Chair at twelve 

 o'clock, and delivered an eloquent address to a large number 

 of the members assembled on the occasion. We are happy to 

 be able to lay before our readers a faithful and pretty copious 

 abstract of that able and impressive composition. 



After reading the list of members v/hoin the Society has lost 

 by death -in the course of the preceding year, in which the 

 names of Lord Byron, Mr. Lowry, and Baron Maseres occurred, 

 Sir Humphry Davy observed, that the only character which he 

 was called upon to notice, as a contributor to the Philosophical 

 Transactions, was that of Baron Maseres, whom he described as 

 having belonged to the old mathematical school of Britain, and 

 who, through a long life, devoted much of his leisure, and a 

 portion of his fortune, to the pursuit and encouragement of the 

 higher departments of algebra and geometry. His love of 

 science was of the most disinterested kind, ;i5 is shown by the 

 nature of his publications, and his liberahty in encouraging the 

 publications of others. He died in extreme old age, having 

 almost outlived his faculties. 



The President then announced that the Council had awarded 

 the medal of Sir GodiVey Copley's donation, for the present year, 

 to the Rev. John Brinkiey, D. D. Andrew's Professor of Astro- 

 nomy in the University of Dublin, and President of the Royal 

 Irish Academy, 



