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practical purposes to which a Wheatstone, a Spencer, a Jacobi, and 

 others have applied it. Its connection with magnetism seems to 

 jDromise still greater discoveries than those that have already immor- 

 talised a Davy and a Faraday. You have pursued this difficult branch 

 of Chemistry with signal success, and the Council have approved of 

 the recommendation of the Chemical Committee, that one of the Royal 

 Medals should be conferred on you for the valuable papers which 

 you have contributed to our Transactions. I trust that our future 

 volumes may be still more enriched by the result of your scientific 

 labours. 



The Statutes relating to the election of Council and Officers having 

 been read, and Joseph Smith, Esq., and Alfred Smee, Esq., having, 

 with the consent of the Society, been nominated Scrutators in exa- 

 mining the lists, the votes of the Fellows present were collected. 



Dr. Roget, on the part of the Scrutators, reported the following 

 Gentlemen as being duly elected Officers and Council for the ensuing 

 year, viz : — 



President. — The Marquis of Northampton. 

 Treasurer. — Sir John William Lubbock, Bart., M.A. 



Secretaries /^^^^^ ^^^^^ Roget, M.D. 



|_ Samuel Hunter Christie, Esq., M.A. 

 Foreign Secretary. — John Frederic Daniell, Esq. 

 Other Members of the Council. — George Biddell Airy, Esq., M. A., 

 A.R. ; Francis Baily, Esq. ; Martin Barry, IM.D. ; Henry James 

 Brooke, Esq. ; Robert Brown, Esq., D.C.L. ; Rev. James Cumming, 

 M.A. ; John Thomas Graves, Esq., M.A. ; Sir William J. Hooker, 

 K.H., LL.D.; Robert Lee, M.D. ; Gideon A. Mantell, Esq., LL.D.; 

 William Hallows Miller, Esq., M.A. ; William H. Pepys, Esq.; 

 George Rennie, Esq. ; The Earl of Rosse ; William Henry Fox 

 Talbot, Esq. ; Charles Wheatstone, Esq. 



The thanks of the Meeting were given to the Scrutators for their 

 trouble in examining the lists. 



The following is the statement of the Receipts and Payments of 

 the Society during the preceding year, which was laid on the table 

 by the Treasurer : — 



Statement of the Receipts and Payments of the Royal Society between 

 Nov. 29, 1841, and Nov. 29, 1842. 



RECEIPTS. 



£ s. d. 



Balance in the hands of the Treasurer at the last Audit . . 609 2 8 

 24 Weekly Contributions, at one shilling .... 62 8 



221 Quarterly Contributions at £1 848 



910 8 



20 Admission Fees 200 



4 Compositions for Annual Payments at £40 160 



Carried forward 



1879 10 8 



