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Henry Hicks, Esq., M.R.C.S., of Heriot House, Hendon, N.W., was elected a Fellow, Dr. Franz Hitter von Hauer, of Vienna, a Foreign Member, and M. Henri Coquand, of Marseilles, a Foreign Correspondent of the Society.

The following communications were read:—

1. The following letter from the British Embassy at Copenhagen, transmitted by Earl Granville:—

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,—Two Swedish- Government vessels have lately visited this port, having on board a scientific commission which has just returned from an expedition to the coast of Greenland. They brought with them a number of aërolites which had been found on the coast upon the surface of the ground. These aërolites are all of the iron class, and consist of masses of what is called meteoric iron, of various sizes, the largest weighing no less than 25 tons.

As these curiosities were discovered in Greenland, one of them, the second in size, has been presented by the discoverers to the Danish Government, and has been placed in the arsenal in this city.

I have, &c. (Signed)

Mr. having recently returned from Stockholm, where he had the opportunity of examining these remarkable masses