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Council would give Sheffield one trial more; and that in 

 future the Meetings of this Society would be attended as 

 they deserved to be. 



Mr. Wilson moved and Mr. Biram seconded a vote of 

 thanks to Dr. William Alexander, of Halifax ; Thomas Pitt, 

 Esq,, of Huddersfield ; Phineas Beaumont, Esq., Sheffield; 

 and George C. Walker, Esq., Doncaster, for their exertions 

 in behalf of the Society in acting as Local Treasurers ; and 

 that they be requested to continue their valuable services. 



The Rev. Dr. Scoresby was now called on by the Chair- 

 man to read his Paper 



ON SOME INTERESTING COMMUNICATIONS RECENTLY MADE 

 AT THE MEETING OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR 

 THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, HELD AT SOUTH- 

 AMPTON. 



Dr. ScoRESBY then came forward, and said the four sub- 

 jects he intended to introduce to the meeting, if he should 

 have time, were — 



1. Some account of the Decomposition of Water into its 

 Constituent Elements by Heat, and vice versa. 



2. Some account of the Tube across the Menai Straits. 



3. Observations on Professor Schonbein's Explosive Cotton. 



4. Some notice of Artesian Wells, with the new mode of 

 Boring them, as suggested by Hons. Fauvelle. 



The first theory had been advanced by Professor Grove, at 

 the discussions of the Chemical Section for the Advancement 

 of Science, at Southampton, who had contrived an apparatus 

 called the " Euidiometer," by which he could collect the 

 gases, and make satisfactory experiments upon them. It was 

 asserted by Professor Grove that the same process which 

 would combine gases would also separate them. It was a 

 well-known fact that water was composed of oxygen and 



