400 Miscellanies. 



19. Meteorological Society, 



[Established in 1823, — revived in 1836. — 47, Hatton Garden, London.] 



Officers for the Sessions 1838 and 1839. 



President — George Birkbeck, M. D., F. G. S., &.c. 



Vice Presidents — jEneas Mc. Intyre, LL. D., F. L S., M. B. S., &.c. 

 Richard Taylor, Esq., F. R. S., F. R. A. S, &c. 



Treasurer — Charles Shearman, Esq., F. R. A. S., &c. 



Secretary— W. H. White, M. B. S., &c. 



Other members of the Council — Charles Henry Adams, Esq. W. 

 R. Birt, Esq. The Right Honorable Lord Robert Grosvenor, M. P. 

 Sir J. F. W. Herschel, K. H., F. R. S„ F. A. S., &c. Samuel Luck 

 Kent, Esq., F. G. S., &c. John Lee, LL. D., F. R. S., F. A. S., 

 P. N. S,, &-C. Jonathan Pereira, Esq., F. L. S., (fee. Captain Sir 

 John Ross, R. N., F. R. S., &c. John Reynolds, Esq., M. B. S. James 

 George Tatem, Esq. Robert Carr Woods, Esq. 



The number of members amounts to sixty-two, of which ten are 

 honorary and twelve associate members. 



The Council refers with pleasure to the very interesting and valua- 

 ble communications, amounting to upwards of sixty, received during 

 the last fifteen months, from the following gentlemen : — C. H. Adams, 

 Esq., Edmonton, — Wm. Addison, Esq., Great Malvern, — W. R. Birt, 

 Esq.— H. W. Bailey, Esq., Thetford,~Rev. W. T. Bree, Allesley 

 Rectory,— Rev. W. B. Clarke, A. M., F. G. S., &c., Poole,— Dr. Clut- 

 terbuck, London, — Charles Conway, Esq., M. B. S., Near Monmouth, 

 — Professor Cerquero, Astro. Royal San Fernando, — Wm. Gardiner, 

 Jun., Esq., Dundee, — Lieut. Grey, Associate, Australian Expedition, 

 —J. W. G. Gutch, Esq., Swansea,— Sir J. F. W. Herschel, K. H., 

 F. R. S., F. A. S., &c,, Feldhausen, South Africa. — Graham Hutchi- 

 son, Esq., Glasgow, — Samuel Luck Kent, Esq., F. G. S., High Wy- 

 combe, — Lieut. Morrison, R. N., M. B. S., Galway, — S. Moss, Esq., 

 Cheltenham, — Henry Ommanney, Esq., Australian Survey, — Profes- 

 sor Olmsted, Yale College, United States, — John Prideaux, Esq., 

 Plymouth, — Professor Quetelet, Royal Academy, Brussels, — Capt. 

 Sir John Ross, R. N., F. R. S., — John Ruskin, Esq., Oxford, — Capt. 

 Smyth, R. N., F. R. S., Observatory, Bedford,— J. G. Tatem, Esq., 

 High Wycombe, Bucks, — J. Templeman, Esq., St. John's, Newfound- 

 land, — R. C. Woods, Esq., London, — and others, who are not mem- 

 bers of the society. 



The thanks of the society, are due to the following contributors to 

 the society's library, — The Albany Institute, — The South African In- 

 stitution, — Prof. Quetelet, — Prof. Olmsted, — M. D'Avezac,— Gra- 

 ham Hutchison, Esq. — Patrick Murphy, E.sq. — Lieut. Morrison, R. N. 

 —Prof. Whewell,— Capt. Smyth, R. N.~Dr. Lee, F. R. S.— «fec. &c. 



