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trow. A supplementary meeting was held by the geological 

 section on Thursday ^Tlth^ when a paper was transmitted by 

 Professor Anker of Gratz, on remains of the Anthracotherium 

 found in brown coal at Schoenegg, Plates were exhibited by M. 

 Partsch, of interesting remains of the Dinotherium and Anthra- 

 cotherium found in Austria. Professor Gustav. Rose read a 

 paper on the uralite of Fassa Thai. Professor Baumgartner exhi- 

 bited a modification of Wollaston'*s goniometer, proposed by Pro- 

 fessor Mohs. Proposals were circulated in the meeting for the sale 

 of mineral shells, plants, and fossils, belonging to Christopheris of 

 Milan. — Having now given a very brief account of the proceed- 

 ings of our section, I must endeavour to convey to you an idea 

 of the lighter occupations and amusements of the members of the 

 meeting. Nothing could have been more hospitable and splendid 

 than the reception given to the learned assemblage. It was for- 

 merly thought that a sort of barrier existed on the frontier of 

 Austria to the admission of knowledge from other parts of 

 Europe, and that such a meeting would barely be tolerated by 

 government; but I am sure all foreigners who were present, 

 must have left Vienna with very different feelings. The Empe- 

 ror and his Ministers bestowed the most decided marks of atten- 

 tion on them all, and entertained them in the most sumptuous 

 style. The members dined together every day in a great hall, 

 and the ladies of foreigners were allowed to attend. On Sunday 

 the 23d, the town of Baden gave a great dinner to the whole 

 party of strangers, amounting to about 240, who were all con- 

 veyed in about fifty Eilwagens. On the following Tuesday the 

 Emperor gave a truly imperial entertainment to 500 individuals, 

 at his palace of Lachsenburg. During the forenoon we were 

 driven through the beautiful pleasure grounds in sixty imperial 

 carriages, and we were carried to and from Vienna at the expense 

 of the Emperor. The day I left Vienna, I was at a superb 

 dinner given to about forty of the foreigners by the Minister of 

 the Interior ; and the day after I left, Metternich gave a grand 

 entertainment. During the week of the meeting. Prince Met- 

 ternich gave a soiree to all the members. — P,S, I should men- 

 tion that the Emperor was prevented by indisposition from 

 coming to Lachsenburg the day we were there. 



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