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simus, from Mr. Henry Groom. A collection of pinks, from Mr. T. 

 Hogg. A model of a wheel water-engine, from Mr. Siebe, the in- 

 ventor. A large collection of flowers, from the Garden of the So 

 ciety. 



The Chairman announced that the Council, having ascertained that 

 there was no part of the Charter or Bye Laws which rendered Ladies 

 inadmissible as Fellows of the Society, had Resolved, in compliance 

 with the wish of various members of the Society, that such Ladies as 

 were desirous of becoming Fellows should be proposed at this present 

 meeting. 



A certificate was read in favour of the Countess of Radnor, who 

 being privileged by the Bye Laws was balloted for and duly elected. 

 The following candidates were also balloted for and elected : Joseph 

 Strutt, Esq., and Robert Throckmorton, Esq. 



In pursuance of a Resolution of the Council, a proposal for the re- 

 peal of the present Bye Laws and a draught of amended Bye Laws 

 was read ; and having been signed by the Chairman, was suspended 

 in the Meeting-room. 



XXIV. Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles. 



NOTES ON DR. ROGET's REPLY* TO MR. BABBAGE. 



THE Secretary of the Royal Society having in his letter to the Pre- 

 sident attempted to explain away the charges I had brought 

 against the mode of keeping our minutes, proceeds in his " Observa- 

 tions" to assert that they are "groundless accusations ;" and with sin- 

 gular infelicity himself supplies the most undoubted evidence of their 

 truth. 



There are three points on which he complains. 



1st. I have asserted that a certain minute of 26th Nov. 1829 is not 

 correctly entered. 



To refute this the Secretary states that he destroyed the original 

 minute [" the rough draft was destroyed . . . ."], and caused to be en- 

 tered on our minutes a resolution which he himself admits to be at va- 

 riance with the fact f. 



2nd. I have complained of great delay in entering the minutes of 

 the Council in the proper book. 



To this Dr. Roget replies, that one % of the three cases 1 have given 

 (and he must be aware I could easily have enumerated many more) is 



* Published in the last Number of the Phil. Mag. and Annals of Philosophy. 



t " At the meeting in question a rough minute was of course taken down, 

 " and it did contain the name of Captain Beaufort." " That minute was after- 

 " wards corrected." — Dr. Rogefs Observations in reply to Mr. Babbage. 



1 1 shall not follow the Secretary into the special pleading, by which it is 

 denied that the meeting of the 11th of February was a Council. I may perhaps 

 offer a few observations upon it in a subsequent edition of my work ; but I 

 think it would be ungenerous to a valuable officer of our Society, who can- 

 not avail himself of the same means of rectifying a misapprehension, to 

 allow it to be inferred, which it might, perhaps, from Dr. Roget's Observa- 



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