ROYAL SOCIETY.
June 2, 1831. Sir A ST LET COOPER, Bart., Vice-President, in the Chair. William Snow Harris, Esq. of Plymouth, and William Wilkins, Esq. RA, F.S.A., of Weymouth Street, were elected Fellows of the Society. The following presents were announced, viz —two Views of the proposed Clifton Suspension Bridge ; a Portrait of. Dr. Young, en- graved by Turner, from the painting by the late Sir Thomas Lawrence, the Colours by Dr. Jacob Roux; the Edinburgh Journal of Science, No. VIII., new series ; the Edinburgh New Philoiophical Journal, four Numbers ; the Philosophical Magazine, No. L1V. ; the Library of the Fine Arts, Nos. I., 11., III., and IV.; the National Portrait Gallery, No. XXVI. A paper was read, entitled "On the Caves and Fissures in the Western District of the Mendip Hills ;" by the Rev.
David Williams, F.G.S., Rector of the Parishes of Bleadon and Kingston Seamoor, in the county of Somerset. It was illustrated by a great number of specimens of fossil buttes found in the caverns in the Mendip Hills ; and which were laid on the table for the inspection of the Members.
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