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well, aiid the hair to appear perfectly healthy, even although the 

 vegetable growth was as great as it had been. I have in my possession 

 many long bail's filled with the branches of the fungus, and whose 

 roots were still coated with it, which were taken from a boy whose 

 seeming perfect recovery had been tested by the lapse of about ten 

 months. My paper has however run already to too great a length to 

 permit me to enter upon the subject of the diseases of the hair.* 



NINTH MEETING. 



Royal Institution. — Februaiy 23, 1852. 



J. B. YATES, Esq., F.S.A., &c., Pbesident, in the chair. 



The Secretary intimated that the Council had agreed to print a 

 certain number of copies of Mr. Byerley's Fauna, according to the 

 vote of the Society on the preceding night, which referred the subject 

 to the Council. 



It was resolved to renew the invitation to the British Association, to 

 hold its meeting in 1853, in Liverpool. The President and Secretary 

 were requested to communicate with the Town Council, and Local 

 Societies, on the subject. 



Mr. Henry Behrend drew attention to the peculiar metres of 

 Hebrew Poetry, recently discovered in some manuscripts at Oxford. At 

 the request of the Society, he promised to communicate a Paper on the 

 subject at a future meeting. 



Mr. J. Byerley exhibited a specimen of glass, obtained from the 

 ashes of a stack of oats consumed at Hoylake. 



* For description of the plates illustrating this paper, sec the end of the vohune. 



