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LONDON. Mineralogical Society, October 30.—Anniversary Meeting.—Mr. L. Fletcher, President, in the chair.—The Hon. Secretary, Mr. Scott, read the Annual Report, which showed that the state of finances was not unsatisfactory. The excess of assets over liabilities was £247 6s. 11d., and the expenditure on the Journal during the year had been £79 13s. 9d., being about the average of late years. The elections to the Society during the year had been six, of whom one was an Associate. The Council had to regret the loss by death of one of their Corresponding Members, Prof. vom Rath, of Bonn, of whom an obituary notice by Prof. Lewis appeared in No. 37 of the Journal. Mr. Solomon Birkett, one of the Associates, had also died, having been killed by a. railway train near Whitehaven. Three meetings had been held since the last anniversary, two in London, and one in Edinburgh.—The following is the list of officers and Council elected for the corning session:—President: R. H. Scott, F.R.S. Vice-Presidents: Rev. S. Haughton, F.R.S., and Dr. Hugo Müller, F.R.S. Council: Prof. J. W. Judd, F.R.S., Prof. E. Kinch, Prof. W. Ivison Macadam, J. J. H. Teall, Prof. A. H. Church, T. M. Hall, J. Stuart Thomson, Major-General C. A. MacMahon, Dr. C. A. Burghardt, H. A. Miers, R. H. Solly, and Dr. J. M. Thomson. Treasurer: Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R. S. General Secretary: L. Fletcher. Foreign Secretary: T. Davies. Auditors: B. Kitto and F. W. Rudler.—The President then delivered an address which will be printed in the next number of the Journal.—The following papers were read:—On large porphyritic crystals of feldspar in certain basalts of the Isle of Mull, by T. H. Holland, communicated by Prof. Judd, F.R.S.—Note on the crystalline forms of silicon and carbon, by Prof. Judd, F.R.S.—On the supposed fall of a meteorite stone at Chartres, Eure-et-Loire, in September 1810, by the President.—On percylite from a new locality, by the President.—On various twins of calcite, by H. A. Miers.—A description of a new polarizing microscope, by Allan Dick, communicated by J. J. H. Teall.—Note on Colorado hydrophane, by Prof. A. H. Church, F. R. S.
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