THE
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
OF
SCIENCE.
PRESIDENT.
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF SUSSEX, K.G., K.T., G.C.H., D.C.L., F.R.S., &c., &c., &c., &c.
VICE-PRESIDENTS.
THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF MUNSTER, F.R.S.
THIS RIGHT HON. LORD HOLLAND, F.R.S.
THE RIGHT REV. THE LORD BISHOP OF DURHAM, F.R.S.
SIR ROBERT HARRY INGLIS, BART., M.P., LL.D., F.R.S.
SIR GEORGE T. STAUNTON, BART., M.P., D.C.L., F.R.S.
THE RIGHT HON. SIR LANCELOT SHADWELL, V.C.
COUNCIL, 1840-41.
CHARLES PURTON COOPER, ESQ. Q.C., D.C.L., F.R.S., F.S.A.
THOMAS STEPHENS DAVIES, ESQ. F.R.S. L. & E., F.S.A.
Professor of Mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.
AUGUSTUS DE MQRGAN, ESQ. V.P.R.A.S.
Professor of Mathematics at Unversity College, London.
JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL, ESQ. F.R.S., F.S.A.
Sec. Treaus.
REV. JOSEPH HUNTER, F.S.A., F.R.A.S.
SIR FRANCIS PALGRAVE, K.H., F.R.S.
THOMAS JOSEPH PETTIGREW, ESQ. F.R.S., F.S.A., F.L.S.
REV. BADEN POWELL, M.A., F.R.S.
Savilian Professor of Geometry, Oxford.
SIR J. GARDNER WILKIlftsON, F.R.S., M.R.S.L., F.G.S.
REV. ROBERT WILLIS, M.A., F.R.S.
Jachwnian Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy, Cambridge.
THOMAS WRIGHT, ESQ. M.A., F.S.A.
JAMES YATES, ESQ. M.A., F.R.S., F.G.S.