ROYAL SOCIETY.
March 22, 1832. Dr. BUCKLA ND, V.P., in the Chair. The following can- didates for election as Fellows of the Society were proposed, viz.-Edward Ayslx- ford Sandford, Esq. M.P.; Charles Preston Cooper, Esq. of Lincoln's Inn; Decimus Burton, Esq. Architect.
The following presents were announced--Synopsis of the several Seams of Coal in the Newcastle District ; by John Boddie, Esq: Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, Vol. II., Part I. Index ot Attic Names, Ancient and Modern, occurring in the paper of Colonel Leake on the Demi of Attica; presented by the Royal Society of Literature. Astronomical Observations made at the Armah Observatory; by Dr. T. R. Robinson. An Historical and Topo- graphical Account of Fulham and Hammersmith ;, by T. Faulkner, Esq. The Spanish Nautical Almanac for 1834; by Don Jose Sanchez Cerquero. A paper was read "On the Electricity of the Torpedo;" by John Davy, M.D. F. R. S., Assistant Inspector of Army Hospitals. The President announced from the chair, that it was proposed by the Council to publish Abstracts of all the papers read to the Society, and printed in the Philosophical Transactions, since the beginning of the present century.
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