... PHYSICAL SCIENCE. This section met again at eleven o'clock on Saturday, Professor STOKES again presiding. THE LOSS OF THE TAYLEUR, AND THE CHANGE IN THB ACTION OF THE COMPASSES IN IRON SHIPS. The Rev. Dr. SCORESBY read his promised paper on this subject ...

... but these, of course, were not sufficient to establish a theory. He thought, however, that the disastrous loss of the Tayleur, might possibly have arisen from this cause. All the tables of deviations of compasses of ships that had heeled had the maximum ...

... solitary cases brought under their notice did leave, was altogether an erroneous one. (Hear, hear.) The instances of the Tayleur, and of the Birkenhead, had been alluded to; but he would ask the gentlemen who spoke of these cases to to investigate with ...

... emigrant vessels, by Mr. Saxby ; upon mechanical appliances on board merchant ships, by Rev. Dr. Scoresby; upon the loss of the Tayleur, and the change in which the compass is liable in iron ships; and by Mr. Gray upon improved ship's compasses. By this arrangemen ...

... which I have proposed for the descriptive measurement of ships, that such a mode is called for, I need only mention the Tayleur, of the strength and proportions of which we have no record to guide us in designing new vessels, or to show us the cause ...