ROYAL SOCIETY.
His Royal Highness the Duke of SUSSEX presided at the meeting on Thursday last. Sir Martin Shee, Knt. President of the Royal Aca. demy, was proposed as candidate for election. William John Blake, Esq. M.A. of Christ Church, Oxford, was elected a Fellow of the Society. Henry Percy Gordon, Esq. was admitted. The sequel of Mr. Ivory's paper, the reading of which had been begun at the last meeting, was read and concluded. The Konigsberg Tables for Astronomical Reduc- tions, from 1750 to 1850, by Professor Besse], were presented by the author. The proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspond- ence of the Zoological Society of London were presented by the Society. " On the Probable Connexion of Rock Basins in Form and Situation, with an Internal Concretionary Structure in the Rocks in which they occur," by E. W. Brayley, Esq. was presented by the author. The Transactions of the Society of Arts, for the year 1829, presented by the Society.
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