THE 



HISTORICAL SOCIETY 



OF 



SCIENCE. 



PRESIDENT. 



HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF SUSSEX, 

 K.G., K.T., G.C.H., D.C.L., F.R.S., &c., &c., &c., &c. 



VICE-PRESIDENTS. 



THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF MUNSTER, F.R.S. 

 THE RIGHT HON. LORD HOLLAND, F.R.S. 

 THE RIGHT REV. THE LORD BISHOP OF DURHAM, F.R.S. 

 SIR ROBERT HARRY INGLIS, BART., M.P., LL.D., F.R.S. 

 SIR GEORGE T. STAUNTON, BART., M.P., D.C.L., F.R.S. 

 THE RIGHT HON. SIR LANCELOT SHAD WELL, V.C. 



COUNCIL, 1840-41. 



CHARLES PURTON COOPER, ESQ. Q.C., D.C.L., F.R.S., F.S.A. 

 THOMAS STEPHENS DAVIES, ESQ. F.R.S. L. & E., F.S.A. Pro- 



fessor of Mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. 

 AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN, ESQ. V.P.R.A.S. Prof essor of Mathematics 



at University College, London. 



JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL, ESQ. F.R.S., F.S.A. Sec. 8f Treas. 

 REV. JOSEPH HUNTER, F.S.A., F.R.A.S. 

 SIR FRANCIS PALGRAVE, K.H., F.R.S. 

 THOMAS JOSEPH PETTIGREW, ESQ. F.R.S., F.S.A., F.L.S. 

 REV. BADEN POWELL, M.A., F.R.S. Savilian Professor of Geometry, 



Oxford. 



SIR J. GARDNER WILKINSON, F.R.S., M.R.S.L., F.G.S. 

 REV. ROBERT WILLIS, M.A t , F.R.S. JacJcsonian Prof essor of Natural 



and Experimental Philosophy, Cambridge. 

 THOMAS WRIGHT, ESQ. M.A., F.S.A. 

 JAMES YATES, ESQ. M.A., F.R.S., F.G.S. 



