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power, and having ascertained through its Secretary, Mr, 
Phillips, that the design would meet with adequate support 
from scientific men in various parts of the kingdom, proceeded 
on the 3 2th of July to issue a general circular inviting the 
friends of science to meet in the apartments of the Society 
during the last week in September. 
To give publicity to the invitation, the Committee which the 
Council appointed to make the necessary arrangements for the 
Meeting, addressed copies of the circular to the Presidents 
and Secretaries of all the Philosophical Institutions in Eng¬ 
land. As President of the first of our scientific establish¬ 
ments, the Duke of Sussex was solicited to honour the Meeting 
with his presence. His Royal Highness replied, that if his 
engagements had permitted him, nothing would have given 
him greater pleasure than to have accepted the invitation ; and 
he desired that his best wishes for the success of so praise¬ 
worthy an object might be communicated, with an assurance 
of his warm co-operation in promoting any measure which 
might be suggested and sanctioned by such a Meeting. 
Copies of the circular were also sent to correspondents, 
for distribution in Scotland and Ireland ; the substance 
of it was publicly advertised, and the invitation was ad¬ 
dressed individually to a numerous list of persons who were 
known to occupy themselves in the cultivation of science. Of 
the arrangements which subsequently occupied the attention 
of the managing Committee, it is sufficient here to state 
that they satisfied the objects, and obtained the thanks of 
the Meeting. 
On the 27th of September, the Society had the satisfaction 
of seeing collected within its walls an assemblage of many 
eminent Members of learned and scientific bodies from dif¬ 
ferent parts of the united kingdoms, before whom it became 
the duty of the Council, by the previously expressed desire of 
