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The discussions after the Papers also have 

 been often animated and interesting*. 



Two Courses of Lectures have been delivered 

 to the Society during the Session : the one a highly 

 interesting one upon the comparative Anatomy of 

 the Cerebral and Nervous Systems, by Mr. T. P. 

 Teale ; the other upon Hieroglyphics, by Mr. Wm. 

 Osburn, Jun. The attendance upon neither, how- 

 ever, was such as to justify either the Council in the 

 pecuniary expenditure needful for a Course of 

 Lectures, or the Members in the much more 

 formidable expenditure of time and labour requisite 

 in preparing one. 



The following are amongst the most important 

 additions which have been made to the Museum in 

 the course of the past year : — 



1. A very large specimen of the Aerolith or Meteoric Stone, 



which fell April 26th, 1803, at Aigle, in the department 

 of Orne — ^by Benj. Gott, Esq. 



2. Fine specimen of the Palm Madrepore, (Madrepora Palmata) 



— by Wm. Brown, Esq. Newfoundland. 



3. Specimen of the Duck-billed Platypus, (Ornythorynchus 



paradoxus) — ^by Mr. John Thorp. 



4. Fine specimens of Minerals — by Thomas Allen, Esq. Sec. 



R.S.E. Edinburgh. 



