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June 6, 1850. 



The Annual General Meeting for the election of Fellows was held 

 this day, — 



The EARL OF ROSSE, President, in the Chair. 



The Statutes relative to the election of Fellows having been 

 read, — 



William Spence, Esq. and James Yates, Esq. were, with the con- 

 sent of the Society, appointed Scrutators to assist the Secretaries in 

 examining the lists. 



The votes of the Fellows present having been collected, the fol- 

 lowing gentlemen were declared duly elected : — ■ 



William Henry Barlow, Esq. 

 George Busk, Esq. 

 Thomas Blizard Curling, Esq. 

 George Edward Day, iM.D. 

 Warren De la Rue, Esq. 

 William Fairbairn, Esq. 

 Robert James Graves, M.D. 

 Levett Landen Boscav/en 



Ibbetson, Esq. 

 The Society then adjourned. 



Charles Handfield Jones, 

 M.B. 



James P. Joule, Esq. 

 John Fletcher Miller, Esq. 

 Major Henry Creswicke Raw- 



linson. 

 Edward Schunck, Esq. 

 Daniel Sharpe, Esq. 

 John Tomes, Esq. 



June 13, 1850. 

 The EARL OF ROSSE, President, in the Chaii 



Daniel Sharpe, Esq. 

 John Tomes, Esq. 



Warren de la Rue, Esq. 



James P. Joule, Esq. 



Thomas Ehzard Curling, Esq. 

 were admitted into the Society. 



The Right Hon. Lord Londesborough was balloted for, and elected 

 a Fellow of the Society. 



1. " On Dynamical Stability, and on the Oscillations of Floating 

 Bodies." By the Rev. Henry Moseley, M.A., F.R.S., Correspond- 

 ing Member of the Institute of France. 



The position into w^hich a body will first roll by the action of any 

 force tending to incline it from its position of equilibrium is essen- 

 tially different from that in which it will finally rest. It is never- 

 theless with reference to the latter only that the stability of floating 

 bodies has hitherto been considered. The object of this paper is to 

 discuss the question of stability with reference to the former ; to 

 compare the stabilities of different vessels as regards rolling ; and to 

 determine under what conditions of form and loading a vessel will, 

 when subject to given disturbing causes, roll the least. The sta- 

 bility of a body understood in this sense the author calls its dyna- 



