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Council of the Astronomical Society of London take this opportunity of acquainting the public, that a Committee is, from time to time, appointed to consider and report on the Papers read before the Society: and the Council afterwards select such as they judge most proper for publication in the Memoirs. The grounds of their choice are, and will continue to be, the importance or singularity of the subjects, or the advantageous mode of treating them; without, however, pretending to answer for the certainty of the facts, or the propriety of the reasonings, contained in the several Papers so published; which must still rest on the credit or judgment of their respective authors.

It is therefore necessary to remark that the thanks, which are usually proposed from the Chair, to be given to the authors of such Papers as are read at their accustomed meetings, or to the persons through whose hands they receive them, are to be considered in no other light than as a matter of civility, in return for the respect shown to the Society by those communications.