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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 meetmgs, or to the persons through whose 
hands they received them, are to be considered in no other light than as a matter of 
chility, in return for the respect shown to the Society by those commrmications. The 
like also is to be said rvith 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 
ueAvspapers, that they haA^e met AAuth the highest applause and approbation. And 
therefore it is hoped that no regard aavII hereafter be paid to such reports and public 
notices ; Avhich in some instances liaA^e been too lightly credited, to the dishonoiu- of the 
Society. 
The Meteorological Journal hitherto kept by the Assistant Secretary at the Apart- 
ments of the Eoyal 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 Obsei’A'atory at 
GreeiiAvich, under the superintendence of the Astronomer Royal, a Magnetical and 
^Meteorological Observatory, Avhere observations are made on an extended scale, which 
are regularly published. These, Avhich correspond Avith the grand scheme of observations 
noAV can-ying out in different parts of the globe, supersede the necessity of a continuance 
of the observations made at the Apartments of the Royal Society, Avhich could not be 
rendered so perfect as Avas desirable, on account of the imperfections of the locality and 
the multiplied duties of the obserA'er. 
