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be the cause of much good, by directing their attention to those subjects 

 by which they can best render service to science. The effects in this 

 way are obvious, from the great number of donations annually made to 

 the museum by naval officers. " In these commercial and maritime towns, 

 the number of individuals possessed of literary leisure is necessarily limited. 

 Hence the greater importance of facilitating their improvement ; of com- 

 municating knowledge in an attractive form, whereby the mind is imper- 

 ceptibly led to the acquisition of knowledge ; of divesting science of many 

 of those technicalities which frequently prove insuperable difficulties to 

 the student. The members of this Society are generally impressed with 

 its usefulness ; and, if this Report should happen to circulate beyond our 

 own immediate sphere, it is trusted that it may have some effect in exciting 

 the uninterested, and arousing the lukewarm, in the cause of science. This 

 Society does not advocate the interest of any sect ; it proceeds on the broad 

 principle of doing good, not to particular individuals, but to the public at 

 large ; not to any party, but to the inhabitants of these towns in general." 

 The Report of the Committee from which these extracts are taken, is 

 followed by the Secretary's Report, in which the analysis is given of the 

 different lectures delivered throughout the year. The interest of these 

 lectures, and the good which they are likely to effect, will appear from the 

 following enumeration of the subjects of them : — Natural Philosophy, by 

 Mr. John Fincham, Vice-President ; Geology of the Island of Portsea, by 

 Lieut. Davies, Curator of the Museum ; Stenography, by Mr. Hinton, of 

 Chichester; Mechanical Properties of the Atmosphere, by the Rev. J. Ful- 

 lagar. President of the Mechanics' Institution of Chichester; Habits and 

 Physiology of some of the Termes Testacea, by Mr. C. Wilcox ; Forensic 

 or State Medicine, by Mr. J. W. Williams ; Oxygen and hydrogen gases, by 

 Mr. Richard Dowle ; Mineralogy, by Mr. William Fricker ; Philosophy of 

 Evidence, by Mr. N. Griffin; Physiology of the Stomach, and the Process 

 of Digestion, by Mr. Garrington ; Authenticity of the Poems of Ossian, by 

 the Rev. Edmund Kell, A.M., of Newport; Progress of Literature in Eng- 

 land, since the invasion of Julius Caesar, by Mr. George Caught; Ichthyo- 

 lites, or Fossil Remains of Fishes, by Lieut. J. H. Davies, Curator of the 

 Museum ; Languages, by Mr. Hinton, of Chichester ; Anatomy and Physio- 

 logy, by Mr. Julian Slight, Secretary ; Hydrostatics, by the Rev. J. Neave; 

 Contagion, by Mr. J. W. Williams ; Magnetism, by Mr. Bennett, of Ports- 

 mouth Dock-yard ; Probable permanency of Modern Civilisation, by Mr. 

 George Caught ; History of Music, by Mr. Henry Deacon, Treasurer ; Elec- 

 trical and Magnetic Agencies, &c., by Lieut. Sabben, R.N. 



Waterion, Charles, Esq., of Walton Hall, near Wakefield ; a man who, from 

 a boy, has displayed great originality of character ; an excellent classical 

 scholar, and amiable in all the private relations of life : Wanderings in 

 South America, the North-west of the United States, and the Antilles, in 

 the years 1812, 1816, 1820, and 1824. With original Instructions for 

 the perfect Preservation of Birds, &c. London, 8vo. 2d edit. 10*. 



This is, in all respects, an original book ; the remarks are, for the greater 

 part, confined to subjects of natural history ; and, mixed up as they are with 

 the author's personal adventures, are not less entertaining than instructive. 

 The future pages of our Collectanea will be richly indebted to Mr. Water- 

 ton. What is particularly gratifying in reading the work, is the liberality 

 and benevolent feeling which it displays, not only towards man in every 

 country and clime, and of every religion and government, but towards 

 every living thing capable of feeling pain or enjoying pleasure. The book 

 deserves to be put into the hands of all boys resident in the country, to 

 teach them the exercise of humanity, in their earlier years, towards insects 

 and birds, and, in their more mature days, in the sports of the field and in 

 the chase. We cannot sufficiently recommend it. 



