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By Professor Airy : On the defects of the eye-pieces of telescopes. 



After the meeting Professor Sedgwick gave an account of the peculiarities 

 of the Coal Strata in the neighbourhood of Whitehaven : and George 

 Noakes (set. 7), a boy remarkable for his powers of calculation, was ex- 

 amined by several members of the Society. 



May 21, 1827. 



By R. M. Fawcett : On the use of Iodine in cases of Paralysis. 



By Pi'ofessor Airy : On the observation of eye-glasses depending upon their 



spherical figure, and on the periscopic Panorama. Trans. III. 1 — 63. 

 After the meeting Mr Peacock gave an account of the discoveries recently 



made in Hieroglyphics. 



November 12, 1827. 



By Tho. Jarrett, B.A. (Cath.) : On Algebraical Notation. Trans, in. 65—103. 

 By Will. Whewell, M.A. (Trin.): On the History and Principles of Chemical 



Nomenclature and Notation, with suggestions of some alterations in the 



Notation hitherto in use. 

 By Will. Mandell, B.D. (Qu.) : Exhibition of a piece of breccia, supposed to be 



a fragment of a Roman quern or hand-mill, found on the Hills Road. 



November 26, 1827. 



Professor Sedgwick read a letter from Mr Ri. Tho. Lowe, concerning certain 

 petrifactions, apparently of. vegetable origin, which are found in the 

 Island of Madeira. 



By Professor Henslow : An account of the application of the chloraret of lime 

 to the purpose of disinfecting and neutralizing putrid and noxious sub- 

 stances. 



December 10, 1827. 



Dr Fre. Thackeray presented a sword of the sword-fish, and read some obser- 

 vations on the bones of the head, and especially those which seem to 

 belong to its olfactory system. 



By Leonard Jenyns, M.A. (Joh.) : On the monstrous prolongations of teeth, 

 etc., which have been observed in different animals, particularly the 

 teeth of a rabbit and the bill of a rook which exist in the Collection of 

 the Society ; and on the circumstances by which such deformities have 

 been observed to be accompanied. 



February 17, 1828. 



By Alex. Ch. Louis D'Arblay, M.A. (Chr.): Remarks on a pamphlet by Messrs 



Swinburne and Tylecot of St John's College, concerning the proofs of the 



Binomial Theorem, and especially that of Euler. 

 After the meeting Mr Peacock gave an account of the representations occurring 



in Egyptian monuments of the deities of that country, and of the funeral 



rituals. 



March 3, 1828. 



By Alex. Thomson (Joh.) : On a mode of obtaining exact measures of the 

 cranium. 



By Will. Whewell, M.A. (Trin.) : On the different systems of mineralogical 

 classification. 



After the meeting Professor Sedgwick gave an account of the geological struc- 

 ture of Scotland, as collected from the observations made by himself and 

 Mr Murchison during the preceding summer. 



