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the mercury stood about inch .05 lower than that in the English baro- 
meter above mentioned. L 
On the 1st August, I emptied the tube which had been filled on the 
3rd June; and refilled it: the results of this and a few more experi- 
ments I give below: 
1833. THERMOMETERS. 
lst Aug. Eng. Bar. Altd. Detd. M. B. Plain tube. 
4 P.M. 28.684 865 87 835 28.594 tube fresh filled. 
aie, NT, -666 do. do. do. .412 tube again filled after re- 
maining empty an hour. 
.374 tube again filled. 
.064 tube wiped out and filled. 
& P.M. -672 864 85 833 092 ditto ditto. 
-626 tube wiped out very care- 
fully. 
The tube was wiped with an iron wire, round which silk was bound 
for about six inches, and on the last occasion, I heated the silk over a 
fire, and kept up a smart friction in the tube, till I felt a sensible heat 
from it. I should think that similar results might always be gained. 
The height at which the mercury stood, after this method of drying the 
tube, being the same as regards the English barometer as what it was 
when it was filled in very dry weather on the 3rd June. 
1X.—Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 
Wednesday Evening, the 26th December, 1833. 
Captain W. N. Forszs, Engineers, in the Chair. 
The Proceedings of the last Meeting were read.—G. A. Bususy, Esq. 
proposed at the last Meeting, was elected a Member. 
A. Hamunton, M. D. Surgeon of H. M. 41st Regiment of Foot, at Moul- 
mein, was proposed as a Member by Mr. Twrntne, seconded by Mr. Prinser. 
Messrs. Macxernzin, J. S. Sroprorp, and Mr. A. Bearrix, proposed by Mr. 
Baesuaw, seconded by Dr. Tyrer. 
A letter was read from M. J. J. Marcer, Ancien Directeur de I’Impri- 
merie Royale, Membre de la Commission d’Egypte, &c. requesting to know 
the result of his application of the 14th July, 1830, and presenting copies 
of his Translations from the Arabic. 
Mr. Marcet was elected an Honorary Member on the 4th January, 1832, 
but the announcement had unfortunately miscarried. 
A letter from G. A. Busnpy, Esq. Officiating Secretary to Government, 
General Department, intimating the resolution of the Right Hon’ble the 
Governor General in Council, that the privilege of franking accorded to 
