BRITISH MUSEUM, MARCH 24, 1830.

"All that you have said respecting your being a candidate for admission
into the Royal Society, is correct to the letter. I pressed the subject
upon you, and I would do it again to-morrow, were it necessary."

Here, then, we find Mr. Children, who has been on the Council of the
Royal Society, and who was, a few years since, one of its Secretaries,
pressing one of his friends to become, and actually insisting on
proposing him as, a Fellow of the Royal Society, He must have been
well aware of the feelings which prevail amongst the Council as to
the propriety of such a step, and by publishing the fact, seems quite
satisfied that such a course is advantageous to the interests of
the Society. That similar applications were not unfrequently made in
private, is well known; but it remains for the Society to consider
whether, now they are publicly and officially announced to them, it
will sanction this mode of augmenting the already numerous list of its
fellows.

APPENDIX, No. 3,

LIST OF THE MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY, WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THE
PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS, OR HAVE BEEN ON THE COUNCIL.

N. B.--The Numbers are made up to the present year for the Papers, but
only to 1827 for Members of the Council.

No. of No. of
Papers years on
printed Council.
in Phil.
Trans.-------- -------
3 Aberdeen, Earl of.
3 3 Abernethy, John.
2 Allan, Thomas.
3 Allen, William.
1 Arden, Lord.
1 Atholl, Duke of.
7 2 Babbage, Charles,
1 Babington, William.
1 2 Baily,Francis.
9 Barlow, Peter. (C)
2 Barnard, Sir F. Augusta.
5 Barrow, John.
2 Bauer, Francis.
1 Bayley, John.
1 Beaufort, Francis.
2 Beaufoy, Henry.
5 Bell, Charles.
1 Bingley, Robert.
1 Blackburne, John.
3 Blake, William.
1 3 Blane, Sir Gilbert.
1 1 Blizard, Sir William.
1 1 Bostock, John.
12 10 Brande, Wm. Thos. (C)
16 Brewster, Davi