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Treasurer. —J. Taylor, Esq. 



Council.— Sir T. D. Acland, Bart. MP. ; J. Duke of Bedford, 

 FL. and HS. ; W. Clift, Esq. FRS. ; H. T. Colebrooke, Esq. 

 FR. and LS. ; Major T. Colby, LLD. FRS. L. and E. ; T. Hors- 

 field, MD. FLS.; Sir A. Crichton, MD. FR. and LS. ; C. 

 Stokes, Esq. FRA. and LS. ; T. Smith, Esq. FR. and LS. ; 

 W.H.Pepys, Esq. FR.L.and HS.; Rev. Adam Sedgwick, MA. 

 FRS. Woodwardian Prof. Cambridge ; W. H. Fitton, MD. 

 FRS. 



Keeper of the Museum and Draughtsman. — T. Webster, Esq. 



Feb. 20. — A notice was read, of the Discovery of a perfect 

 Skeleton of the Fossil Genus hitherto called Plesiosaurus ; by 

 the Rev. W. D. Conybeare, FRS. MGS. 



The Plesiosaurus, which is the subject of this notice, was 

 found in the blue lias of Lyme Regis, in Dorsetshire. In the 

 whole exterior portion of its vertebral column the skeleton is 

 entire, and of the remaining parts of the animal few are wanting. 

 In the Transactions of the Geological Society, vol. 5, and vol. 1 

 second series, the author had attempted to assign to the various 

 dispersed and disjointed remains of this animal which were then 

 known, their relative places in the skeleton, and his opinions, he 

 observes, have now, in all essential points, received full confirm- 

 ation. After pointing out the errors into which he had fallen, 

 Mr. Conybeare describes the osteology of this remarkable fossil 

 animal; the most characteristic and distinguishing features of 

 which are, the extraordinary length of the neck, which fully 

 equals that of the body and tail united, and the number of its 

 vertebrae, which very far exceeds that of any animal previously 

 known. 



METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Jan. 14. — The Committee appointed by the Council of this 

 Society to consider and report upon the best means of establish- 

 ing correct and complete series of meteorological observations 

 having presented their Preliminary Report, it was communicated 

 by the Council to the Society, at this meeting. 



The Committee represent in this Report, that the first and 

 principal object of the Society is to obtain accurate and compa- 

 rable observations of atmospheric phenomena from all parts of 

 the world ; and after adverting to the advantages which would 

 result from the general adoption by meteorologists of instru- 

 ments graduated upon the same scales, to be examined by all at 

 the same hours, and the results noted upon the same plan, they 

 proceed as follows : 



"The Committee are, however, aware, that there are many and 

 weighty difficulties in the way of such an arrangement, and that 

 much time would necessarily be required for their consideration 

 and discussion; they therefore recommend that immediate 

 measures be taken to procure correct registers of comparable 

 observations from different parts of Great Britain and its colo- 



