6 NOTES BY THE EDITOR 



den meeting in pronouncing them to belong to man. The discovery of sev- 

 eral almost perfect skulls has set the matter finally at rest ; there "was a 

 race of men living simultaneously with the mammoth and other huge ante- 

 diluvian animals. 



The sectional meetings were well attended. In the Section for Chemis- 

 try and Pharmacology, there were Fehling, Sehlossbergher, Leube, Babo, 

 Weidenbusch, Ammermuller, Fresenius, Weltzen, H. Rose, &c.; Fehling 

 and Rose alternately presided. In the Section for Mathematics, Physic, 

 and Astronomy, Wolfers, Osann, K,eusch, Dove, Holtzmann, Gugler, &c. ; 

 Dove and Osann presided. The Section for Medicine and Surgery counted 

 the largest number of members. On the 24th of September the meetings 

 were finally closed. Gottingen was chosen as the place of meeting for 

 1854, and Professors Listing and Baum, were elected Presidents of the 

 Society. 



The Scientific Congress of France held its twentieth annual session at 

 Arras, under the Presidency ef the Baron de Sassart, President of the 

 Academy of Belgium. 



The sixth annual meeting of the American Medical Association, took 

 place in New York, in May, 1853. Dr. Knight, of New Haven, presided, 

 and about five hundred members were present. The prizes offered at a 

 former meeting for the best original essays, were awarded to the authors of 

 the two following : "On the Cell, its pathology," &c., by Dr. Waldo J. 

 Burnett, of Boston; "Fibrous Diseases of the Uterus hitherto considered 

 incurable," by Washington L. Atlee, of Philadelphia. For the premiums 

 so awarded, there were fifteen competitors. 



The Ray Society held its tenth annual meeting at Hull, during the meet- 

 ing there of the British Association. The cause of delay in the issue of the 

 last part of Messrs. Alder and Hancock's work "On the Naked Mollusca," 

 was stated to be, the wish of the authors to add as large a mass of new 

 matter as possible. Of two works for 1852, one containing a translation 

 ofBraun "On Rejuvenescence in Nature," Kohn "On Protococcus," and 

 Menighini "On Diatomacere," was nearly completed. The second vol- 

 ume of Mr. C. Darwin's "Barnacles and Sea Acorns," is in the press. 

 For 1854, the Council propose to publish Prof. Allman's work "On the 

 British Freshwater Polyzoa," with colored plates, in imperial quarto, 

 and the fourth and last volume of Agassiz's " Bibliography of Zoology and 

 Geology." The Secretary, Dr. Lankester, stated that Prof. Williamson's 

 and Dr. Carpenter's work "On the Foraminifera," was in progress, and 

 would probably be published in 1855. 



A maritime conference, composed of distinguished representatives of the 

 nautical science of the great maritime nations of Europe and the United 

 States, convened in Brussels in August last, for the purpose of devising a 



