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The ballot having been taken, Mr. Beaumont was declared to be 

 re-admitted. 



In accordance with the Statutes, notice was given of the ensuing 

 Anniversary Meeting; and the following names of noblemen and 

 gentlemen proposed as Officers and Council for the ensuing year 

 were read : 



President. The Lord Wrottesley, M.A. 

 Treasurer. Colonel Edward Sabine, R.A. 



f William Sharpey, M.D. 



Secretaries. < ^ _, , . , , , ,-, A/r A 



I George Gabriel Stokes, Esq., M.A. 



Foreign Secretary. Rear- Admiral W. H. Smyth. 

 Other Members of the Council. The Duke of Argyll ; Neil 

 Arnott, M.D. ; Rear-Admiral F. W. Beechey ; Sir Benjamin 

 Brodie, Bart. ; William Benjamin Carpenter, M.D. ; Arthur 

 Cayley, Esq. ; Rev. James Challis, M.A. ; Charles Darwin, Esq., 

 M.A. ; Sir Philip de M. Grey Egerton, Bart. ; William Fair- 

 bairn, Esq. ; John Miers, Esq. ; William Allen Miller, M.D. ; 

 William Hallows Miller, Esq., M.A..; James Paget, Esq. ; John 

 Stenhouse, LL.D. ; Rev. Robert Walker. 



I. The reading of Dr. FARADAY'S paper, "Experimental Researches 

 in Electricity Thirtieth Series," was resumed and con- 

 cluded. 



The following is an abstract : 



* 38. Constancy of differential magnecrystallic force in different 

 media. That a magnecrystal formed into a sphere (or some equiva- 

 lent shape, so that mere length should have no influence) sets with 

 the same force in the magnetic field, whatever the magnetic nature 

 of the medium around it, has been shown generally, and for a few 

 cases, on former occasions. The author was under the necessity of 

 verifying and enlarging the old results ; and upon employing the 

 following magnecrystals, namely bismuth, tourmaline, carbonate of 



* Series XXIX. is published in the Phil. Trans, for 1852, p. 137. 



