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papei's, which have been commenced, and are now in pro- 

 gress of printing ; with the amount of liability of the Aca- 

 demy for what has not yet been paid. 



4th. A statement of the terms of any agreement or con- 

 tract entered into by the Council, with the author or authors 

 of any such paper or essay, and the sum or sums of money 

 advanced on that account. 



5th. An account of all medals and rewards adjudged by 

 the Council, and paid to any author for papers and essays, 

 during the said period, from the 17th of March, 1828, to 

 the 17th of March, 1844, with the dates of such payments 

 and delivery. 



6th. An account of the debts and liabilities of the Aca- 

 demy at this time, and also of their available assets. 



It was moved by Dr. Apjohn, — That the Secretary of 

 Council be requested to provide the Academy, at the next 

 meeting, with the information required in Sir William 

 Betham's notice. 



The motion, after discussion, was withdrawn. 



The Rev. H. Lloyd laid upon the table of the Academy a 

 magnetical instrument, which had been recently constructed 

 under his direction by Mi*. Jones of London, and which he 

 proposed to denominate the " Theodolite Magnetometer." 



Much attention had of late been given to the construc- 

 tion of small magnetical instruments, for the use of travel- 

 ling observers, and many improvements in their form had 

 been effected by Prof. Weber, Mr. Fox, and Lieut. Riddell. 

 Prof. Lamont had also recently adopted magnets of a very 

 small size in all the instruments employed by him in his 

 magnetical observatory, and had stated his conviction of 

 their superiority over the larger magnets hitherto in use. 

 Without entering at present into the grounds of this convic- 

 tion, in the unlimited form in which it had been asserted 



