ROYAL SOCIETY.
THE first meeting of the Royal Society since the annual election of the Council and Officers for the ensuing year, was held on Thursday the 8th. His Royal Highness the Duke of SUSSEX, K.G., President, in the Chair.
The minutes of the proceedings of the Anniversary meeting, including the-Address of the President to the Society, the lists of the Fellows de- ceased, and also of those elected during the past year, and a report of the proceedings of the Council drawn up by the Secretary, Dr. Roget, were read. The CounciLhas awarded the Copley Medal to Professor Airy of Cambridge, for his various papers on Optical subjects, published in the Cambridge Philosophical Transactions.
The Council and Officers elected for the ensuing. year, are as -follows-. President—His Royal Ilighnesit the Duke of Sussex, K.G. Treasurer— John. William--Lubbock, Esq. Secretaries—Peter Mark Rogete MIX John ,Getorgea Children. Esq.. Foreign Secretary—Charles Konig, Esq, OtherAeleintuCtiteCalutcil.—Zeterliari9.74.Esq.,..ktha ostooko
Rev. William Buckland, D.D., Samuel Hunter Christie, Esq., Rev. Henry' Coddington, Charles Daubeny, M.D. George Dollond, Esq., Davies Gile
beet, Esq. Joseph Henry Green, M.D.. William George Maton, M.D., Roderick Esq.. Murchison, Esq.' Rev. George Peacock, George Rennie,. Esq., Captain W. H. Smyth, R.N., Rev. William Whewell, N. A. Vigors, Esq.
The following presents were announced. Lectures on Anatomy, by B. B. Cooper, Vol. III. Journal of the Royal Institution, No. V. An Essey on Algebraical Development; by the Rev. Thomas Jarrett. Arrangement of the Savings Banks In England, \Vales, and Ireland • by T. T. Pratt. Journal of the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania. Memoir on the Birds in the neighbourhood of Geneva ; by Professor Necker. On some Relations between the general Direction of the Stratification and that of the Lines of equal Magnetic Intensity in the Northern Hemi- sphere; by the same. On the Cicatrization of the Wounds of Arteries ; by Messrs. Tal rich and Halma-Grand.
The second part of Mr. Faraday's paper on Electro-Magnetism was read. .
Henry R. Palmer, Esq., Philip Hardwicke, Esq., Thomas Maclean, Esq.; and Lord Oxina.ntown, were severally put to the ballot, and elected Fel- lows of the Society. Professor Edward Coleman was admitted a Fellow of the Society.
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