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Rh practical purposes to which a Wheatstone, a Spencer, a Jacobi, and others have applied it. Its connection with magnetism seems to jDromise still greater discoveries than those that have already immor- talised a Davy and a Faraday. You have pursued this difficult branch of Chemistry with signal success, and the Council have approved of the recommendation of the Chemical Committee, that one of the Royal Medals should be conferred on you for the valuable papers which you have contributed to our Transactions. I trust that our future volumes may be still more enriched by the result of your scientific labours.

The Statutes relating to the election of Council and Officers having been read, and Joseph Smith, Esq., and Alfred Smee, Esq., having, with the consent of the Society, been nominated Scrutators in exa- mining the lists, the votes of the Fellows present were collected.

Dr. Roget, on the part of the Scrutators, reported the following Gentlemen as being duly elected Officers and Council for the ensuing year, viz : —

President. — The Marquis of Northampton. Treasurer. — Sir John William Lubbock, Bart., M.A.

Secretaries  Roget, M.D.

Foreign Secretary. — John Frederic Daniell, Esq. Other Members of the Council. — George Biddell Airy, Esq., M. A., A.R. ; Francis Baily, Esq. ; Martin Barry, IM.D. ; Henry James Brooke, Esq. ; Robert Brown, Esq., D.C.L. ; Rev. James Cumming, M.A. ; John Thomas Graves, Esq., M.A. ; Sir William J. Hooker, K.H., LL.D.; Robert Lee, M.D. ; Gideon A. Mantell, Esq., LL.D.; William Hallows Miller, Esq., M.A. ; William H. Pepys, Esq.; George Rennie, Esq. ; The Earl of Rosse ; William Henry Fox Talbot, Esq. ; Charles Wheatstone, Esq.
 * _ Samuel Hunter Christie, Esq., M.A.

The thanks of the Meeting were given to the Scrutators for their trouble in examining the lists.

The following is the statement of the Receipts and Payments of the Society during the preceding year, which was laid on the table by the Treasurer : —

Statement of the Receipts and Payments of the Royal Society between Nov. 29, 1841, and Nov. 29, 1842.

RECEIPTS.

£ s. d.

Balance in the hands of the Treasurer at the last Audit. . 609 2 8 24 Weekly Contributions, at one shilling .... 62 8

221 Quarterly Contributions at £1 848

910 8

20 Admission Fees 200

4 Compositions for Annual Payments at £40 160

Carried forward

1879 10 8