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the difference of nutritive power of these several articles, has com- 

 monly been overrated. 



2c?/y, The peculiar qualities of fish, if any, as articles of diet. On 

 this head, excusing himself from entering into details from want of 

 sufficient data, he expresses the opinion that fish, as diet, are not 

 without specific power, conducive to health, and the prevention of 

 certain diseases, especially scrofula, pulmonary consumption, and 

 goitre. He founds this opinion partly on experience, — the absence 

 or comparative rarenesss of these diseases amongst people using 

 such a diet ; and partly on the circumstance, that iodine in minute 

 quantity enters into the composition of sea-fish, having found traces 

 of it in every instance of these fish in which he has specially sought 

 for it ; an opinion, moreover, he thinks strengthened by the fact, that 

 the same element, iodine, exists in cod-liver oil, which has proved so 

 serviceable, if not in curing, at least in mitigating pulmonary con- 

 sumption. 



The following Gentleman was duly elected an Ordinary 

 Fellow : — 



Hugh Scott, Esq. of Gala. 



The following Donations to the Library were announced : — 



Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Seances de 1' Academic des 



Sciences, 1852—3. 4to. — From the French Government. 

 Memorie della Accademia delle Scienze dell' Instituto di Bologna. 



Tom. II. 4to. — From the Academy. 

 Rendendrionto delle Aduvanze e de' Lavori della Reale Accademia 



delle Scienze sezione della Societa Reale Borbonica. N.S. 



Nos. 1-5. 4to. 

 Relazione Lalla Malattia della Vite apparsa nei contorni di [Napoli 



ed altri luoghi della Provincia fatta da una commissione della 



Reale Accademia delle Scienze. 4to. — From the Academy. 

 Opuscula Matematici di Tito gonella. 4to. — From C. Babbage, Esq. 

 The Assurance Magazine, and Journal of the Institute of Actuaries. 



No. 11. 8vo. — From the Institute. 

 Catalogue of a Collection of Ancient and Mediseval Rings and 



Personal Ornaments formed for Lady Londesborough. 4to. — 



From Lord Londesborough. 



