154 Scientific Intelligence. [Feb. 



METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



The second general meeting of this new and promising asso- 

 ciation was held on Wednesday, Nov. 12, 1823, in pursuance 

 of the resolutions agreed to at its establishment, as given in 

 the Annals for Nov. and was very numerously and respectably 

 attended. 



Dr. Birkbeck having been called to the chair, the business of 

 the evening commenced by the admission of a number of new 

 members, among whom were W. Allen, Esq. FRS.; W. H. Pepys, 

 Esq. FRS. ; B. C. Brodie, Esq. FRS.; H. T. Dela Beche,Esq. 

 FRS.; G. M. Paterson, MD. M. Asiat. Soc. Calcutta, Sec. 



The Society then proceeded to the election of a Council and 

 Officers ; when the following gentlemen were appointed : — 



Council.— John Bostock, MD. FRS.; Thomas Forster, MB. 

 FLS. ; William Shearman, MD. ; C. J. Roberts, MD. ; Luke 

 Howard, Esq. FRS. ; J. F. Daniell, Esq. FRS. ; Richard Tay- 

 lor, Esq. FLS. ; E. W. Brayley, Jun. Esq. 



President.— George Birkbeck, MD. M. Ast. Soc. MGS. &c. 



Treasurer. — Henry Clutterbuck, MD. 



A provisional draught of regulations for the government of the 

 Society having been read, it was referred to a committee for 

 revision, and the Society then adjourned. 



On the 14th of Jan. 1824, a third general meeting took place, 

 at which the Code of Regulations, as revised by the committee, 

 was adopted by the Society; and the meeting being then 

 resolved into an ordinary one, a Report from a Committee 

 was read, on the objects to which the attention of the 

 Society should primarily be directed ; together with a paper on 

 the Vernal Winds, by John Gough, Esq. of Kendal, and several 

 other communications ; all which we hope to notice more parti- 

 cularly in our next. 



Article XXI. 



SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE, AND NOTICES OF SUBJECTS 

 CONNECTED WITH SCIENCE. 



I. Dark and bright Lines traversing the Spectrum. 



(To the Editor of the Annals of Philosoji/iy.) 

 SIR, Jan. 14, 1824. 



In your number for August, 1822, a short notice appears respecting 

 the prismatic experiments of M. Frauenhofer, a full account of which 

 is given in the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, No. 18, p. 288, and 

 continued in the subsequent number. You will, perhaps, allow me to 

 trespass upon a small space in the next number of the Annals in order 

 to make a remark relative to the subject of the papers alluded to, 



