PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE ROYAL SOCIETY. 



May 1, 1879. 



THE TREASURER in the Chair. 



The Presents received were laid on the table, and thanks ordered for 

 them. 



In pursuance of the Statutes, the names of the Candidates recom- 

 mended for election into the Society were read from the Chair, as 

 follows : — 



Prof. John Anderson, M.D. 



Rev. Miles Joseph Berkeley, 



P.L.S. 

 Henry Bessemer. 

 Prof. Alexander Crum Brown, 



M.D. 



Walter Lawry Buller, Sc.D., 

 P.L.S. 



George Howard Darwin, M.A. 

 Prof. Joseph D. Everett, M.A., 

 D.C.L. 



Prof. Francis Stephen Bennet 

 Francois de Chaumont, M.D. 



Prof. George Downing Liveing, 

 M.A. 



George Matthey, F.C.S. 

 George John Romanes, M.A. , 

 F.L.S. 



Arthur Schuster, Ph.D., F.R.A.S. 

 Prof. Harry Govier Seeley, F.L.S. 

 Benjamin Williamson, M.A. 

 Thomas Wright, M.D., F.G.S. 



The following Papers were read : — 



I. "A Magnetic Survey of the Fortieth Parallel in North 

 America between the Atlantic Ocean and the Great Salt 

 Lake, Utah." By T. E. Thorpe, Ph.D., F.R.S., Professor of 

 Chemistry, Yorkshire College, Leeds. Received March 25, 

 1879. 



(Abstract.) 



This communication contains the results of a series of observations 

 of the three magnetic elements — dip, intensity, and declination — made 

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