150 REAR-ADMIRAL F. W. BEECHEY'S ADDRESS. [May 26, 1856. 



A^alley of the Arve, whicli will be laid before the Society at an eaily 

 period. 



Norway. — Our Associate, Professor Munch, of Christiania, has en- 

 riched our collection with several recent maps and charts of the 

 Coast Survey of Northern Norway, forming a series, beginning 

 about the 64th parallel and extending to the Eussian frontier. 



The Coast Survey Charts of Southern Norway have also been 

 received, as well as Professor Munch' s Map of Southern Norway, 

 Northern Norway with Finmarken, 1852, and Norway, published at 

 Christiania in 1854 ; also the Amt Maps, by Captains Eamm and 

 Murthe. 



Major Yibe, of the Norwegian Engineers, informs our Secretary 

 that, in addition to the Coast Surveys already mentioned as having 

 been lately published, others, by Munch, Giessing, &c., are in 

 course of preparation. 



Denmark. — The Eoyal Society of. Northern Antiquaries has just 

 held its anniversary meeting at the Palace of Christiansborg ; its 

 President, Frederick the Seventh, King of Denmark, in the chair. 

 Prof. Ch. Rafn, our Associate, communicated an account of the 

 proceedings of the Society during the past year, and exhibited 

 the new volume of the ' Annales ' of Northern Archoeology and 

 History; the new number of the Society's Review, and of the 

 * Memoires des Antiquaires du Nord.' He also laid before the 

 Society the second part of the * Lexicon Poeticum ' of the Icelandic 

 language, compiled by Sweinjorn. Among the articles in the ' An- 

 nales ' may be especially noticed ' King Oswald hin Helliges (the 

 holy) Saga,' with a preface by Jon Sigurdsson, and translations by 

 Thorl. G. Eepp ; also a notice on Virdaland's Ancient History, by 

 Prof. A. Cronholm, of Lund ; and a Grammar of the Faeroe Lan- 

 guage, by the Eev. V. U. Hammershaimb, of North Streeamey. In 

 the Antiquarian ' Tidsskrift ' are found papers on the OZ(i-English 

 and 0/J-Norsk, by Gisle Brynjulfsson ; on the Ancient Languages 

 of the North, by G. E. Lund; Old-Norsk Eemains among the 

 Orkneys, by G. Petrie, Esq., of Kirkwall; Antiquarian Contribu- 

 tions from Sclavic Lands and Monuments of the Bosphorus, by 

 Edwin M. Thorson ; Eeport on the Cabinet of American Antiquities, 

 by Ch. Eafn. In the number just published of the ' Memoires ' are 

 papers on Eunic Inscriptions in Sodor and Man, with a Geographical 

 elucidation of the Irish and Scotch names occurring in the Sagas, by 



