201 PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



Dennes, M. Hopkins, J. Reynolds, H. A. Meeson, A. Lewis, W. M. Chat- 

 terley, J. Freeman, D. Cooper, A. Irvine, A. Wallis, &c. 



The meetings of the Society are held every first and third Friday of the month, 

 from November to June ; and on the first Friday of every other month, at eight 

 o'clock, p.m. Communications are received at the rooms, 75, Newman-Street. 



Ladies are eligible as members, upon the same terms as gentlemen, and possess 

 similar privileges. 



The annual subscription for resident members is one guinea; corresponding 

 members, half-a-guinea. Admission fee, half-a-guinea. 



Feb. 2. — Mr. W. H. White in the chair. — A large collection of French plants, 

 supposed to have formed part of the herbarium of the celebrated botanist, J. J. 

 Rousseau, and presented by Mr. James Rich, was exhibited. The first part of 

 this splendid collection was presented last year. A paper by the Curator, 

 Mr. D. Cooper, was read, " On some new Species of Corallines described by 

 Ferdinand Krauss, Ph.D.," translated from the German. Baron Von Ludwio 

 — a Wurtemberg noble much attached to Natural History — presented to the 

 Museum of his country, some months since, a large collection of natural objects 

 from the Cape of Good Hope, amongst which Dr. Krauss discovered three new 

 species, viz. Amathia biseriata, Acamarchis tridentata, and Flustra marginata. 

 These were described in relation to their order, classes, and families, also as 

 regarded their relative distinctions ; together with many interesting particulars. 

 It was announced that the Curator would deliver a course of lectures on practical 

 Botany in the early part of March, commencing one hour previous to the chair 

 being taken at the ordinary meetings. 



FRENCH SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION AND ADVANCEMENT 

 OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



A new Society has just been formed in France, entitled the Societe Francaist 

 pour la Propagation et le Progres des Sciences Naturelles. Those who belong ti 

 it take shares, and its objects are, — 1st., to generalize and facilitate the public 

 instruction of Natural Science ; 2nd., to render the taste for these sciences an 

 object of popular study ; and 3rd., to assist even savans in their pursuits, by 

 regulating classification and nomenclature. The principal centre of this Society 

 will be Paris, but it will have auxiliary Societies in Marseilles, Nantes, Havre, 

 Strasbourg, Clermont, and the Pyrenees. — Athenaum, Feb. 3, 1838, communicated 

 by T. B. Hall. 



