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present, apparent, some remote results would probably be observed, 

 whicb might be ascribed to it, as their cause. 



Thus, with an increase in the variation of the heights of the baro- 

 meter, an increase both of dryness and moisture would follow. A3 

 an increase of variation also attends an increase in declination, it is 

 probable that the greatest effect would be perceived when the two 

 causes were in co-operation together. Now as there are certain years 

 in which the moon's perigee fell on the same day with her maximum 

 declination, either north or south, it is probable that, in those years, 

 the extremes of weather, both of dryness and moisture, would be 

 experienced. Is this then the case ? Are those years in which the 

 day of perigee is the same as the day of maximum declination, also 

 those in which the extremes both of drought and moisture occur ! 

 By such results let these speculations be tried. For our present 

 purpose, which is only to obtain some useful indications, the differ- 

 ence between an absolute error and a barren verity is not worth 

 mentioning. 



XI. — Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 



Wednesday Evening, the 5th October, 1836. 



The Rev. Dr. Mill, Vice-President, in the chair. 



Lieutenants Newbold and S. Tickell, proposed at the last meeting, 

 were balloted for, and duly elected Members of the Society. 



Mr. Vincent Tregeab, proposed at the last meeting, was, upon the 

 favourable report of the Committee of Papei's, unanimously elected an 

 honorary member. 



Mr. G. F. MacClintock was proposed by Mr. Macnaghten, seconded 

 by Dr. Mill. 



The Secretary then read the Report of the Committee of Papers on 

 Mr. C. Brownlow's proposition relative to the publication of the AUf 



Leila. 



[See below.] 



Resolved — That the Society approve and adopt the Report of the Com- 

 mittee: — that it feels honored by Mr. Brownlow's desire to publish the 

 work under its auspices ; and that in addition to its own subscription, the 

 prospectus shall be circulated among individual members, and the patro- 

 nage of the Government shall be respectfully solicited to Mr. Brown- 

 low's undertaking. 



Library. 



The following books were presented : — 



A Discourse concerning the influence of America on the mind, being the 

 Annual Oration delivered before the American Philosophical Society on the 18th 

 October, 1823, by C. J. Ingersoll, Esq. — by the Society. 



Notice Historique sur Charles Telfair, Esq. Fondateur et President de 

 la Society d'llistoire Naturelle de Pile Maurice, &c. &c. ; by M. Julibn De9 

 Jardins — by the Author. 



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