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PHYSICAL AND MATHEMATICAL SECTION. 
Annual Meeting, March 1st, 1866. 
E. VV. 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 : — 
E. W. BINNEY, F.R.S., E.G.S. 
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ROBERT WORTHINGTON, E.R.A.S. 
JOSEPH BAXENDELL, F.R.A.S. 
treasurer. 
Me. THOMAS CARRICK. 
Secretary. 
G. Y. YERNON, E.R.A.S, M.B.M.S. 
A paper was read “On the Variable Star R Vulpeculae. 
« — 20 h 58 m 22-9 3 . 8= + 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 
