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I'etude des grands phenomenes de la physique du globe. On peut 



reconnaitre, des a present, que le nombre des stations necessaires 

 pour etablir la loi de continuite est insuffisant, surtout dans touts 

 I'etendue de I'Asie. 



June 5, 1851. 



The F:ARL of ROSSE, President, in the Chair. 



The Annual Meeting for the election of Fellows was held this 

 day. 



The Statutes for the election of Fellows having been read, Dr. 

 Roget and Mr. Spence were, with the consent of the Society, ap- 

 pointed Scrutators. 



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

 lowing gentlemen were declared duly elected : — 



Charles Cardale Babington, Esq. 

 Thomas Snow Beck, M.D. 

 Charles James F'ox Bun bury, Esq. 

 George T. Doo, Esq. 

 Edward B. Eastwick, Esq. 

 Captain Charles M. Elliot. 

 Captain Robert FitzRoy, R.N. 

 John Russell Hind, Esq. 



AugustusWilHam Hofraann, Esq. 

 Thomas Henry Huxley, Esq. 

 William Edmond Logan, Esq. 

 James Paget, Esq. 

 George Gabriel Stokes, Esq. 

 William Thomson, Esq. 

 Augustus V. Waller, M.D. 



The Society then adjourned to the 19th of June. 



June 19, 1851. 

 The EARL OF ROSSE, President, in the Chair. 



The following gentlemen were admitted into the Society : — 



Charles Cardale Babington, Esq. Captain Robert Fitz-Roy, R.N. 



Thomas Snow Beck, M.D. Thomas Henry Huxley, Esq. 



Edward B. Eastwick, Esq. • William Edmond Logan, Esq. 



Captain Charles M. Elliot. George Gabriel Stokes, Esq. 



His Grace the Duke of Argyll was balloted for, and elected a 

 Fellow of the Society. 



The following papers were then read : — 



1. " Researches in Symbolical Physics. On the Translation of a 

 Directed Magnitude as Symbolised by a Product. The Principles 

 of Statics established symbolically." By the Rev. M. O'Brien, M.A., 

 late Fellow of Caius College, Cambridge, and Professor of Natural 

 Philosophy and Astronomy in King's College, London. Communi- 

 cated by W. A. Miller, M.D., F.RcS. &c. Received April 10, 1851. 



In this communication the author (starting from the well-known 



