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Performance of solid beam, ~ 2 8 : 73 
Fluid, ~ 26: 141 
tc In favour of the fluid more than, .. 2 : 1 
* 4 The height through which the weights were raised, was in each experiment the 
same, and as near as could be measured 6 inches.” 
We feel very curious to witness a repetition of this experiment. 
V . — Proceedings of Societies. 
1 Asiatic Society. 
A meeting of this society was held on the 5th December, the president in the 
chair. 
The following gentlemen proposed at the last meeting were balloted for and un- 
animously elected : Colonel Watson, Mr. Dobbs, Captain Gowan, Lieutenant Aril- 
cox. Air. Hurry, Mr. Bagshaw. 
The following office-bearers for 1 29 were re-elected^ 
Vice- Presidents — Honorable W. B. Barley, Esq. Honorable Sir J Franks, Hono- 
rable Sir E. Ryan. Honorable SirC. T. Mete life, Bart. 
Committee of Papers — Dr. Adam, Dr. Grant, J. Calder, Esq. Dr. Carey, Lieu- 
tenant Colonel Hodgson, H. Macnaghten, Esq. J. Tytler. Esq A. Stirling, Esq. 
After the private business of the evening was gone through, the subject of the 
admission of H ON OK ary Members was discussed, agreeably to the notice given at 
the preceding meeting. It. was resolved, that in future any ordinary member should 
be at liberty to submit to the committee of papers, either directly or through the 
secretary, the name or names of such gentlemen as he might consider entitled to tin's 
mark of attention on the part of the society. It should then be at the option of the 
committee to nominate such person or persons for the ballot, or to decline doing so, 
and this without assigning any reason. 
It was further resolved, that the members should, after the practice of the Fellows 
of the Royal Society, dine together on the anniversary of the institution of the 
society. 
The following donations were made to the library and museum. 
The Koran, as recently printed in Calcutta, with an interlinear version into Hin- 
dustani. A sheet showing the 44 Balance politique du Monde,” by Mons. Baliii. Copy 
of an oration delivered before the Medico- Botanical Society of London, by the Socie- 
ty. Visconti, a tragedy by Dr. Kennedy, by the author. Anniversary Address deli- 
veredat the Liverpool Royal Institution, by Dr. Traill. Sir William Dugdale’s His- 
tory of Embanking, by Dr. Strong. The Meteorological Register for November 
and December, by Lieutenant Colonel Hodgson. 
For the Museum — Tile head of a woodcock, killed near Currah in the Dooab, 
presented by Captain Hewitt. A very full collection of organic remains from the 
Yorkshire strata, by All*. Turner. 
Thanks were voted to the several contributors. 
Committee of Natural History and Physics . 
Wednesday, 24th December, 1828. 
Honorable Sir E. Ryan, in the chair. 
• r ter L l P n va , te business of the evening, a paper by Air. Piddington on the soil 
m winch the Cinchona grows, was read. 
A supplement to the paper by Dr. Ilardie, on the Geology of Udipur, was also 
read. 
The following papers were transferred to the Committee by the General Secre- 
tary. On the Origin of Aerolites, by Dr. Butler. Account of a hail storm at K ta 
by Alajor Caulfield. Analysis of some iron ores from Burdwan, bv Mr Pidl 
ding ton Remarks on the Meteorological Journals of 1319, 1320. 1821* by Captain 
1 - Gerard. Account of peat earth found in the vicinity of Calcutta, by Dr Strong- 
Description of a new species ofBueeros, by H. Hodgson, Esq. 
Specimens of organic remains, from the bed of the Satluj, forwarded bv Dr Go 
Va £’. W T® presemed b y J- Calder, Esq. 7 
Thanks were voted to the several contributors, and the meeting adjourned. 
A ... 2 — Medical anb Physical Society. 
of *ia society took place on the 3rd instant, H. H. Wilson, Esq. in the 
