Statement of the Receipts and Payments of the Royal Society between November 30, 1855, and December 1, 1856. Ditto Proceedings Estates and Property of the Royal Society, including Trust Fund. per annum. Estate at Acton, Middlesex (28 A. 0 R. 21 P.), £60 0s. Od. per Fee farm rent in Sussex, £19 48. per annum. One-fifth of the clear rent of an estate at Lambeth Hill, from the College of Physicians, £3 per annum. Paper for Transactions and Proceedings Binding Transactions Books Purchased and Binding 0 45 1 6 318 0 3 143 17 7 Professor Thomson desires to make the following corrections: Vol. VII. Page 394, line 6 from foot, dele half. December 11, 1856. General SABINE, R.A., V.P. and Treasurer, in the Chair. The Chairman announced that the President had appointed the following gentlemen Vice-Presidents: Major-General Sabine. The Very Rev. The Dean of Ely. William Allen Miller, M.D. Rear-Admiral Sir James Clark Ross. The following communications were read: I. "Observations made to ascertain the Specific Gravity of By Rear-Admiral PHILIP P. KING, R.N., F.R.S. &c. (Abstract.) The specimens of sea-water experimented upon were collected during the voyage of Her Majesty's Ship 'Adventure,' commencing at Rio de Janeiro, and from thence in succession to St. Catharine's, the River Plate, round the Falkland Islands to Cape Horn, and thence to Valparaiso; and during the ship's return from Valparaiso, through the Strait of Magalhaens to the River Plate and Rio de Janeiro. The series was then completed by the voyage to England. From the author's observations it may be inferred that the density of the water of the Ocean is, very nearly, identical in all parts of the Atlantic between 40° North and 40° South latitude, the exceptions being due to local causes. Dry winds, by increasing the effect of evaporation, would naturally increase the density of the surface water, 2 A VOL. VIII. |