® Such, Are a few features of this interestjng enquiry, whirn has so long engaged 
the earnest study of tlie scientific ; froin the lime ofthe celebrated M Humboldt, whose 
pi'üfond and sagacious observaiions have done so much toi physical scieoce, this ques* 
Hon of tides and tiria! wave lias engaged consideiable attention. Every >ear has ad* 
dt-d something of oertiiude to the theoiies of phiiosophers. From the days of K«pl>-r 
anii Galileo, to those of Mr. Boyle, the astronomer Flam-leed and the mightv Si I aac 
piewton ; from Cassini, Einer and Cavaleii to those of d’Alembert, fiom whose «The- 
®ry of flydrody namics, » oneof the greatesl men of modern times Caplace, deduced 
bis principal phenomena of the t des ; all have, more or less, tended to shed a bright 
and increasing light on this once mystetious and profeun J topir. Io speaking on this 
point, it would be an injustice on m;' pari not to mentior with the highest and most 
u< qualified praise the name of Sir J. Lubbo k, who has laboured so long and so eai - 
hfistly not only in the correction of the tide lables, but also in establishing a regulär 
set of observations on the tides in almost every part of the United Kingdom In con- 
cluding this paper I cannot refrain from exultn g at the intellect of man in llius so 
beaotifully simplifying and formularizing the dark und liidden operations of nature ; 
in a few years let us hope, Hiat wben the law of the action of the eiectric currents of the 
atmosphere, with the influence of the magnelic forces, is clearly detercnined ; when 
the circle of ihe progression of the vot tices of storms and hurricanes, is front theo.y, 
thongh almosi amounting to cerlainty reduced to he positive ss of pra tice; when 
the march of ihe great tide-wave, with ils secondary am) subordinate waves ts scien- 
tißcally formulanzed, let us hope (hat- man may able to traverse the wide and bound- 
less 0 ean, with the confi lence and certitude of knuwing all the forces t hat resisl and 
oppoie him, as weil as the influences ihut tend to second and accelerate his piogiess. 
This wiil be the happy tot of science to perform ; and in concluding this paper, al ow 
me io quoie Ihe impressive wurds of Sir John Berschel in bis trealise on Na.ural phi- 
losophy : « Si ience, in re ation io oui fuculties, is still boundless an<l unexgiored, 
and after the lapse of a Century au I a half fiom the oe a of Newton’s discovenes, 
doring whicb every pari of it has been culli v.ttted with a zcal and eneigy which have 
assured'y met t hei i full reiurn, we yei remain in the Situation in wtuch he fig * ed 
hnriseif. Stand. ng on the shore of the wide Ocean, from whose beacli we may have 
cutled some of ihose innumerable beautiful prodoctions it casls up with lavisli prodi- 
gaiity, but who-e arqmsi ton can be tegarded as no diminulion of the treasures that 
remain.» (P. 359 Ou, )» 
M. labbe de Colyar, eure des Pamplemoüsses, presente ä Ia 
Societe, 36 livraisotis des »ravures formant partie du bei ouvrage 
des freres Chamofillion, sur les nioniimens de i’E^ypte et tle la 
Ktibie. Ce riia^Tvftque present est accepte avec recotuiaissance par 
Ja Societe, qui Charge sou Secreaire de temoigner a M. I ab >e de 
Colyar cömbien eile est sensible äceite marque de flatteu-e atten* 
tion de sa part. 
Le Seeretaire depose sur le Bureau un exemplaire des Trans- 
attiöns of the med eal and physical Soeiely oj Bombay, potir I aih ee 
1843. offen ä la Societe de la pan du Seeretaire, le ür. Mo.ehead. 
La Societe y apprend la inort dune petsonne avec laqueie el*e 
vt nait de se metlre en rapporl ; le Di' Malcolrusou eiait deccde le 
23 Viars dernier. Un hoinmag'e eolatan avait e e rendu a sa me* 
moire, dans la reso utiou arr.Stee par la 8 miete Asiatique de B >m* 
bay, de frapper sou le titrede “A / Ia!cohnsön AJeiial une medai le 
d’or devant etre decernee a la fin de cliaqtie amiee a I autem du 
meilleur ouvrag'e sur l’bistoire naturelle et la litterature de 1 lüde. 
Le Seeretaire fait la lecture d une lettie qu d a teerte de Atme. 
Mooti, et con^ue en ces termes : 
