PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE ROYAL SOCIETY. 



1835—1836. No. 23. 



December 10, 1835. 



FRANCIS BAILY, Esq., Vice-President and Treasurer, in 

 the Chair. 



The following communication from the President to the Fellows 

 of the Royal Society was read : 



" Gentlemen, 



" At the opening of the Session I think it right to express my 

 anxiety to come amongst you again j and I therefore trust that I 

 need not repeat that as soon as my present infirmity is removed 

 you may be sure of my readiness to take the chair. In the mean 

 time I hope that the Members will not relax in their endeavours to 

 uphold the character of the Royal Society ; and I shall look with 

 confidence to the attendance of the Vice-Presidents for the main- 

 tenance of that order and regularity so necessary to be observed at 

 all literary and scientific meetings. 



" Kensington Palace, Dec. 10, 1835. « Augustus F., P.R.S." 



The following papers were read : 



"Memoranda taken during the continuance of the Aurora Borealis 

 of November 18, 1835." By Charles C. Christie, Esq. Commu- 

 nicated by Samuel Hunter Christie, Esq., F.R.S. 



The appearances described were seen from Deal, on the day men- 

 tioned in the title, from 9 to 20 minutes past 10 o'clock in the even- 

 ing j and consisted chiefly of a bright arch of light, of which the 

 lower edge was sharply defined, surmounted on a dark cloud below, 

 while the upper edge was shaded off into the cloudless and starlight 

 sky, emitting large but faint luminous streaks, which issued up- 

 wards with great rapidity, exactly imitating flames agitated to and 

 fro by a violent wind. 



" Demonstration complete du Theoreme dit de Fermat : par 

 Francois Paulet, de Geneve, ancien eleve de l'E'cole Polytechnique." 

 Communicated by P. M. Roget, M.D., Sec. R.S. 



The theorem of which the author professes to give, in this paper, 



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