ROYAL SOCIETY.
May 3, 1832. JOHN Bosrocir, M.D., Vice-President, in the Chair. The Very Reverend George Chandler, D.D., of Mortimer Street, was proposed as a Candidate for election. Mr. Elliot was admitted a Fellow of the Royal So- ciety.
The following papers were read—I. A Report on Mr. Lubbock's paper on Physical Astronomy, read to the Society on the 9th of February 1832. 2. An Account of certain new Facts and Observations on the Production of Steam; by Jacob Perkins, Esq. ; communicated by Ralph Watson, Esq., F.R.S. w The first part of a paper on the Indications of Electric Currents in the Strata of the Earth ; by Robert Ware Fox. The following presents were received—On the Preparation and Management of Plants during a Voyage from India ; by Dr. Wallich. Hyperanthiaxis, or the Cholera of Sunderland ; by Dr. Clauny. I.ithotrity and Lithotorny com- pared; by Dr. Thomas King. Life of Dr. Cullen, by Dr. John Thomsen; Vol. I. Observations made at the Observatory of Cambridge, in the year 1881, by Professor Airy. A Treatise on Climate; lay Dr. James Clarke. On Mine- ralogy as a branch of Natural History; by Professor Necker, of Geneva. Ob- sermtions on the Genus Unio; by Isaac Lea, of Philadelphia. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society at Philadelphia, Vol. IV., Part 1. Me- moirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Turin, Vol. XXXV. Letter from the North of Europe, or a Journal of Travels in Holland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, &c. ; by Charles Boileau Elliot, F.R.S. Four Maps of Hamburg and its immediate Vicinity; by M. Leltse. On the best Means of Instruction in Geography ; by the r4tine. Account of a Graphical Instrument termed an Iconograph, and of a Method of Solving Biquadratic Equations; by the same.
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