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PROCEEDINGS OF THE SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION*. 
Tuesday, 9 th October , 1866. 
Tlie Association met at Mr. Deighton’s house, Queen’s 
Collegiate School. 
Horace DeightoN, Esq., M.A., F.E.A.S., President 
in the Chair. 
Annual Meeting. 
The Ballot for Officers having been taken, Dr. Mitchell 
was declared duly elected as President, and Mr. Henry 
E. J. Guppy, P.A.S.L., as Secretary. 
Ordinary Meeting. 
The following donation was announced: — “ Estudio 
Seismologico. Consideraciones sobre la Pevolucion seis- 
mica del afio 1865-66, por Lino J. Pevenga.” Caracas 
1866. Presented by the Scientific Society of Caracas. 
The Secretary stated that he had been applied to by the 
donors of the pamphlet acknowledged above for infor- 
mation as to the Earthquakes which had occurred here in 
1865-66. 
The following communication was read : — 
Note on the Earthquake of 26th September. 
By B„ J. Lechmere Guppy, F.G.S. 
On Wednesday the 26th ultimo, a shock of an earthquake 
passed through the town of Port-of-Spain ; and having 
been in peculiarly favorable circumstances at the time for 
observing the nature of the shock, I take the opportunity 
of communicating a note on the subject. 
I was reclining in a chair with my feet towards the East 
when the shock took place. It distinctly lifted the left 
side of the chair before the right side, and as the direction 
of my body was East and West the wave must have been 
