COUNCIL EOR 1876. 
17 
Days on 
which the Wind force was 
estimated at 6 and over 
6 on the sea scale, 
or from ‘ strong ’ to 
‘ whole gale,’ maximum 
being 12. 
January 23. 
September 5. 
December 
1 . 
March 
11. 
October 11. 
5? 
2. 
April 
14. 
November 12. 
J5 
11. 
June 
15. 
„ 13. 
12. 
Aug. 
3. 
„ 25. 
19. 
>> 
27. 
30. 
No gales at either vernal or autumnal equinox, hut rather 
an unusual period of calm at both. 
January was the driest month, and had the greatest number 
of calm days, and also the highest mean barometric pressure, 
amounting to 30'21 inches. 
The river Derwent attained its summer level first on July 25th; 
was in a state of flood nearly throughout December, on 21st 
showing 11 feet, and on 30th 10 feet 7 inches above level. 
Thirty-two new Members, four Lady Subscribers, and three 
Associates have been added to the Society during the past 
year, whilst eighteen Members, five Lady Subscribers, and six 
Associates have been removed from the Society’s list by death 
and resignation. 
Among the Foreign Honorary Members of the Society, the 
name of a distinguished French Naturalist will no longer 
appear in the Society’s list. M. A. T. Brongniart, Member 
of the Academy, F. B. S., and Member of the principal learned 
Societies of Europe, died on the 18th of February last, at the age 
of 75. This illustrious French Botanist has for half a century 
justly occupied a prominent place as a man of science. He was 
the son of Alexandre Brongniart, the famous naturalist, who died 
in 1847. At the age of nineteen he wrote his first and only 
Zoological paper, on a new genus of Crustacea. He afterwards 
devoted himself wholly to Botany, especially to the study of 
fossil plants. In 1828 he commenced his great work, “ Histoire 
des Yegetaux Fossiles on Becherches Botaniques et Geolo- 
giques.” (4to,, p.p. 488, illustrated by 166 plates). The work 
