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PHYSICAL AND MATHEMATICAL SECTION. 
Annual Meeting, March 1st, 1866. 
E. W. Binney, F.R.S., F.G.S , President of the Section, 
in the Chair. 
The following gentlemen were elected officers of the Section 
for the ensuing year : — 
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E. W. BINNEY, F.R.S., F.G.S. 
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ROBERT WORTHINGTON, F.R.A.S. 
JOSEPH BAXENDELL, F.R.A.S. 
treasurer. 
Me. THOMAS CARRICK. 
Scmtarp. 
G. Y. YERNON, F.R.A.S, M.B.M.S. 
A paper was read cc On the Variable Star R Vulpeculss. 
a - 20 11 58 m 22*9 S . %= + 23° 17 - 2 '. Ep. 1865-0.” By 
George Knott, F.R.A.S., communicated by Joseph Bax- 
endell, F.R.A.S. 
This star, which is No. 457, hour xx, in the Palermo 
catalogue, was first recognised as variable, so far as 1 am 
aware, at the observatory of Bonn. It appears to have been 
observed with some care by Dr. Winnecke at the Pulkowa 
observatory, and in a letter to the Rev. R. Main, printed in 
vol. xxii. of the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical 
Society, p. 285, that able astronomer assigns the following 
