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to the other. Several of these globules were, by him, sent to 

 me for examination, of which none, agreeably to my recollection, 

 appeared so much like products of fusion as those lately obtained. 

 Formerly plumbago was considered as a carburet of iron, but, 

 latterly, agreeably to the high authority of Berzelius, has been 

 viewed as carbon holding iron in a state of mixture, not in that 

 of chemical combination. It would not, then, be surprising if 

 the globules which 1 obtained consisted of carbon converted from 

 the state of charcoal into that of plumbago. 



Art. VIII. — Abstract of the Proceedings of the Tenth Meeting 

 of the British Association for the advancement of Science. 



The tenth meeting of this body was held at Glasgow, during 

 the week commencing on the 16th of September, 1840. From 

 the report published in the London AthencBum, is prepared the 

 following abstract, in which, on account of our limited space, we 

 are obliged to omit some details, which are less within the scope 

 of this Journal. 



The number of members at this meeting, was 1353, viz. new 

 members, 995 ; old life members, 121 ; old annual members, 

 107 ; foreigners, 40. The property of the Association is £5895 

 Is. ; the year previous it was £G5S8 Os. 4c?. ; the reduction be- 

 ing caused by the large grants paid during the year, for scientific 

 uses. These payments amount to £1548 4s. Ad. 



At the general meeting on Thursday evening, Sept. 17, Mr. 

 Murchison read the report of the General Secretaries, in which 

 was presented a brief view of what the Association had ef- 

 fected during the past year, as recorded in the last published vol- 

 ume of their transactions. 



Professor Whewell was elected President of the Association, 

 for the coming year. The next meeting will be at Plymouth, 

 the precise time to be fixed by the Council, after consulting the 

 local authorities. 



Sect. A. Mathematics and Physics. 



Major Sabine presented his Report on the irayislation of for- 

 eign mjemoirs. At the meeting at Newcastle, in 1838, a com- 

 mittee was appointed to procure and publish translations of for- 



