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18. Officers of the New York Lyceum of Natural History, elected Feb- 

 ruary ^5tk, 1839. 



Joseph Delafield, President. 



John Tourey, 1st Vice President. 



John Augustine Smith, 2d Vice President. 



John C. Jay, Treasurer. 



John H. Redfield, Corresponding Secretary. 



Robert H. Browne, Recording Secretary. 



Issacher Cozzens, Librarian. 



Joseph Delafield, James E. De Kay, John C. Jay, Robert H. Browne, 

 H. C. De Rham, Curators. 



John Torrey, Abraham Halsey, Joseph Delafield, James E. De Kay 

 John C. Jay, Committee of Publication. 



John Augustine Smith, Joseph Delafield, William C. Redfield, John C. 

 Jay, Abraham Halsey, Committee of Nomination. 



H. W. Field, A. R. Thomson, Samuel T. Carey, Committee of Fi- 

 nance. 



James E. De Kay, William C. Redfield, Robert H, Browne, Library 

 Committee. 



19. Royal Society of London — honor to an eminent scientific artist. — 

 The chronometers of London, as well the excellent artists who make 

 them, are famous the world over; among them, Messrs. Parkinson and 

 Frodsham, are conspicuous, and their chronometers have been proved 

 extremely accurate in voyages to the arctic regions, as well as to other 

 parts of the world. Mr. W. T. Frodsham of this firm has been recently 

 elected (as we observe by a London newspaper) a Fellow of the Royal 

 Society, an honor which appears peculiarly appropriate in the case of ar- 

 tists, who by the construction of fine instruments, contribute the most im- 

 portant aid to scientific discovery, and not a few of these artists deserve 

 the name of philosophers. 



20. Progress of the U. S. Exploring Expedition. — The Exploring 

 Squadron, of which we gave an account in our last volume, arrived 

 at Madeira, on the 18th of Sept. 1838, having left Norfolk on the 18th 

 of August. These ships sailed from Madeira, Sept. 24th, and Oct. 

 6th, entered Porto Praya, St. Jago, one of the Cape de Verd Islands. 

 On the 7th of October, they sailed for Rio Janeiro, S. A,, at which 

 place they arrived on the 22d of November. From this port they 

 sailed for the south on the 8th of January, 1839, and were spoken on 

 the 18th of January in latitude 36° 40' S., ten days from Rio Janeiro. 



21. Prof. J. W. Webster' s Manual of Chemistry , new edition. — Marsh, 

 Capen &/ Lyon have in the press, " A Manual of Practical Chemistry, on 



