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thanks,  which  are  frequently  proposed  from  the  Chair,  to  be  given  to  the  authors  of 
such  papers  as  are  read  at  their  accustomed  meetings,  or  to  the  persons  through  whose 
hands  they  received  them,  are  to  be  considered  in  no  other  light  than  as  a matter  of 
civility,  in  return  for  the  respect  shown  to  the  Society  by  those  communications.  The 
like  also  is  to  be  said  with  regard  to  the  several  projects,  inventions,  and  curiosities  of 
various  kinds,  which  are  often  exhibited  to  the  Society ; the  authors  whereof,  or  those 
who  exhibit  them,  frequently  take  the  liberty  to  report  and  even  to  certify  in  the  public 
newspapers,  that  they  have  met  with  the  highest  applause  and  approbation.  And 
therefore  it  is  hoped  that  no  regard  will  hereafter  be  paid  to  such  reports  and  public 
notices ; which  in  some  instances  have  been  too  lightly  credited,  to  the  dishonour  of  the 
Society. 
The  Meteorological  Journal  hitherto  kept  by  the  Assistant  Secretary  at  the  Apart- 
ments of  the  Royal  Society,  by  order  of  the  President  and  Council,  and  published  in 
the  Philosophical  Transactions,  has  been  discontinued.  The  Government,  on  the  recom- 
mendation of  the  President  and  Council,  has  established  at  the  Royal  Obsenutory  at 
Greenwich,  under  the  superintendence  of  the  Astronomer  Royal,  a Magnetical  and 
Meteorological  Observatory,  where  observations  are  made  on  an  extended  scale,  which 
are  regularly  published.  These,  which  correspond  with  the  grand  scheme  of  observations 
now  carrying  out  in  different  parts  of  the  globe,  supersede  the  necessity  of  a continuance 
of  the  observations  made  at  the  Apartments  of  the  Royal  Society,  which  could  not  be 
rendered  so  perfect  as  was  desirable,  on  account  of  the  imperfections  of  the  locality  and 
the  multiplied  duties  of  the  observer. 
