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PROCEEDINGS

OF

THE ROYAL SOCIETY.


1839.
No. 40.

Nov. 21, 1839.

The MARQUIS OF NORTHAMPTON, President, in the Chair.

The following gentlemen were, by ballot, elected Auditors of the Treasurer's accounts, on the part of the Society, viz. Thomas Bell, Esq., Bryan Donkin, Esq., Edward Forster, Esq., Major Edward Sabine, R.A., and John Taylor, Esq.

No paper read.


November 30, 1839.

At the Anniversary Meeting,

The MARQUIS of NORTHAMPTON, President, in the Chair,

Mr. Forster, on the part of the Auditors of the Treasurer's Accounts, reported that the total receipts during the last year, inclusive of a balance of £1463 14^. Sd.^ carried from the account of the pre- ceding year, amounted to £4349 11 5. ^d. : that the total payments in the same period amounted to £2541 \s. 9c?., leaving a balance in the hands of the Treasurer of £1808 9^. "Id,

The thanks of the meeting were given to the Auditors for the trouble they have taken in examining the Treasurer's accounts.

The Secretary read the following list of deceased Fellows of the Royal Society since the last anniversary in 1838; of those who have ceased to be Fellows in default of their annual payments; and of Fellows admitted into the Royal Society since the last anniversary.

List of deceased Fellows of the Royal Society since the last Anniversary (1838).

On the Home List, viz.

The Rev. Archibald Alison. William Beetham, Esq. Robert Bree, M.D. Edward Coleman, Esq. The Rev. John Corrie. The Rev. Martin Davy, D.D. Richard Gregory, Esq. Edmund H. Lushington, Esq., M.A,

William Macmichael, M.D. The Earl of Mount-Edgecumbe, D.C.L.

Whitlock Nicholl, M.D. The Lord Bishop of Peterbo- rough (Herbert Marsh). Stephen Peter Rigaud, Esq., M.A. Isaac Robinson, Esq. Sir William Russell, Bart., M.D. Sir John St. Aubyn, Bart. The Rev. Thomas Sampson, D.D. George Saunders, Esq. Charles Short, Esq. John Storer, M.D.