19 FEBRUARY 1831, Page 18

ROYAL SOCIETY.

February 17. DAVIES GILBERT, Esq., M.P., lathe Chair. William Snow Hants, Esq., of Plymouth, was proposed as candidate.

The following presents of books were announced :—" Gail Plinii Se- cundi Libri de Animalibus, cum Notis variorum," curante Jo. B. Fr. Steph. Ajasson de Grandsagne. "Notes et excursus Zoologiciargumenti," adjecit G. Cuvier ; in two volumes. Two copies of a "Sketch of an Analytical Work," by Mons. Decajoal. "Tables of Life Contingea. cies," by Griffith Davies, Esq. "A Manual of Chemistry ;" by Henry Rose, Professor of Chemistry at Berlin." Translated from the German by John Griffin. The reading of Mr. E. Davy's paper, " On a New Combination of Chlorine and Nitrous Gas," was concluded.