11 JANUARY 1834, Page 20

ROYAL SOCIETY.

9th January 1834.-B. C. BRODIK+ Esq. V.P. in the Chair. A portrait of Davies Gilbert, Esq., lute President of the Royal Society, painted by Thomas Philips, Esq., R. A. F.R. S. was presented to the Society, by Davies Gilbert, Esq. on the solicitation of several of its members; and a vote of thanks to him yea unanimously passed for his valuable present. The thanks of the Society were also voted to the Speaker of the House of Commons for his grant of a copy- of the Parliamentary Papers printed by order of the House of Commons. John Davies Gilbert, Esq., /11. A., of Tredesea, Cornwall, and Eastbourne, Sussex, and Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq., Al. A., of Tlinity College, Cam- bridge, and of Battersea Rise, Surry, were proposed as candidates fur election into the Society. The Earl of Tyreonnel was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. A paper was read on the Empirical Laws of the Tides iii the port of London, with some reflections on the theory, by the Reverend William Wliewell, of Trinity College, Canobri,Ige.