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ROYAL SOCIETY.

February 10, 1831. DAVIES GILBERT, Esq., V.P., in the Chair. Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton, Bart., of Oulton Park, Cheshire, was elected a Fellow of the Society. William John Blake, Esq., was ad- mitted a Fellow. Captain George William Manby, of Yarmouth, was proposed as candidate for election. The following books were presented to the Society:-"A Compendious Grammar of the Egyptian Language, as contained in the Coptic and

Sahidic Dialects, by the Rev. Henry Tattam : with an Appendix, cou.. sisting of the Rudiments of a Dictionary of the Ancient Egyptian Language in the Enchorial Character, by the late Dr. Thomas Young." "Conformity with the National Church: an answer to Reasons for Non-Conformity,'" by John Locke. The Second Number of the "Pro. ceedings of the Zoological Society." The 87th Part of the "Flora Ha- tava ;" presented by his Majesty the King of Holland. "Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Belles Lettres of Brussels ;" vols. IV. and V. "Prize Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Brussels," for the years 1822 to 1828 ; vols IV. to VII. Professor Quetelet's "Mathematical and Physical Correspondence;" vol. V., with five parts of vol. VI. "Recent Experimental Researches in Electra- Magnetism and Galvanism," by William Sturgeon. A paper was 'read in part, entitled, "On a new Combination of Chlorine and Nitrous Gas," by Edmund Davy, Esq., F.R.S., M.R.S.A., and Professor of Chemistry to the Royal Dublin Society. .