ON THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE. IX 



plan do not, however, fully apply to the existing state of things in the 

 United States. 



The next meeting of the Association was appointed to be held at Belfast, 

 Ireland, in June next The President for the year 1852 is Col. Sabine. 



A congress of Swedish, Danish and Norwegian naturalists met at Stock- 

 holm, on the 14th of July, 1851. 



An Academy of Sciences, under the title of the Assembly of Knowledge, 

 has been formed in Constantinople during the past year. The Academy 

 will be composed of forty native members, and an indefinite number of cor- 

 respondents in foreign countries. The statutes declare the object of the new 

 institution to be, the publication of original scientific works, and the trans- 

 lation into Turkish of foreign works of importance. The first labor of the 

 Academy will be the compilation into the Turkish language of an encyclo- 

 paedia of the sciences. 



An American Geographical and Statistical Society was formed in New 

 York, on the 9th of October, by the adoption of a constitution, and the 

 election of suitable officers to manage its affairs. The society is constituted 

 for the collection and diffusion of geographical and statistical information. 

 By the constitution, the society is to consist of ordinary, corresponding and 

 honorary members. The initiation fee is fixed at $10, and the annual sub- 

 scription at $5. Anniversary meetings are to be held on the second Thurs- 

 day of December in each year, and ordinary meetings on the second Thurs- 

 day of March, June, September and December. For the present year, 

 Henry Grinnell, Esq., was elected President ; S. Dewit Bloodgood, Foreign 

 Secretary ; John Disturnel, Domestic Secretary and Agent. 



The Royal Geographical Society of Russia has displayed great energy 

 and activity during the past year. At the annual meeting, two prizes 

 were awarded. The first, a medal, to Col. Lemn, for a series of astronom- 

 ical observations, determining the latitude and longitude of some four 

 hundred places hi Russia and the neighboring regions in Asia, as far as 

 Mesched, in Persia. These determinations are of particular value for the 

 geography of inner Asia. The second prize was bestowed upon M. Woro- 

 noff, for a historical and statistical survey of the educational establishments 

 hi the district of St. Petersburg from 1715 to 1828. It is, in fact, a his- 

 tory of the development of mental culture in that most important part of 

 the empire. From the annual report presented, we derive the following 

 information: The society had caused an expedition to be sent to the 

 Ural, under Col. Hoffman. The triangulation of the country about Mount 

 Ararat had been completed. A map of Asia Minor had been prepared by 

 Col. Bolotoff ; a map of the Caspian Sea, and the countries surrounding it, 

 was nearly completed by Mr. Chanykoff ; the same savant was still at work 

 on a map of Asia between 35 and 40 north latitude, and 61 and 81 east 

 longitude ; two astronomers were engaged in that region, making observa- 



