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Observations on the Aurora Borealis, from Sept. 1834 to Sept. 1839. 

 By Robert Snow, Esq. Printed for Private Circulation. Lon- 

 don, 1842. 12mo. — From the Author. 



On the Intimate Rationale of the Voltaic Force. By Alfred Smee, 

 F.R.S. London, Dec. 1842. 8vo. — From the Author. 



Lecture on the Application of Science to Agriculture, delivered before 

 the Members of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, Dec. 

 9th, 1841. By Charles Daubeny, M.D., F.R.S. &c. London, 

 1842. 8vo. — From the Author. 



On the Chemical Constituents of Crops. By Charles Daubeny, Pro- 

 fessor of Rural Economy in the University of Oxford. London, 

 1842. 8vo. — From the same. 



On the Public Institutions for the Advancement of Agricultural 

 Science in other Countries, &c. &c. By Charles Daubeny, M.D. 

 F.R.S. London, 1842. 8vo. — From the same. 



The African Repository and Colonial Journal. Vol. XIX. No. 5. 

 May, 1843. 8vo. — From the American Colonization Society. 



Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 

 Nos. 24 & 25. 8vo. — From the Academy. 



Szent Biblia, azaz : Istennek 6 es uj Testamentomaban foglaltatott 

 egesz Szentiras. Magyar Nyelvre fordittatott Karoli Gaspar al- 

 tal. Koszegen, 1842. 8vo. — From Mr. Charles Nagy, of 

 Pesth, in Hungary. 



Professor Bache announced the death of H. R. H. the Duke 

 of Sussex, late President of the Royal Society of London, and 

 a member of this Society; who died on the 21st April, 1843, 

 aged seventy. 



Mr. Walker mentioned that Professor Kendall and himself 

 had now succeeded in obtaining elements for calculating the 

 place of the Comet with great accuracy. 



He said that the elements which he had presented at the last stated 

 meeting agree closely with those of M. Arago, just received, and pub- 

 lished in the Courier des Etats Unis; but that he was satisfied from 

 his more recent researches, that the elements then presented, and 

 those also of M. Arago, led to unsatisfactory results ; that the curve 

 traversed by the comet differed from the parabola, and is now shown 

 by the method of Gauss, to be a hyperbola. Mr. W. exhibited the 

 computations made by Professor Kendall, Mr. Downes and himself, 

 which threw the curve into the body of the sun. He said, that if 

 sufficient reliance could be placed upon the normal places of the 



