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of Arteries" at pleasure. Its use was illustrated by several cases, 

 particularly in the exhibition of a patient with double popliteal aneu- 

 rism, in whom the operation was facilitated, and the disease cured 

 by the application of this instrument. 



The last paper read was on the Chemistry of the Digestive Or- 

 gans, by Dr. R. T. Thompson. 



Section F. — Statistics. 



President — Sir Charles Lemon, Bart. 



Vice-Presidents — H. Hallam, Esq., Dr. Jerrard. 



Secretaries — Rev. J. E. Bromby, C. B. Fripp, Esq., James Heywood, Esq. 



Committee — J. W. Cowell, Esq., M. Dupin, Lord King, M. Von Raumer, 

 Rev. E. Stanley, Colonel Sykes, Dr. Taylor, Henry Woolcoombe, Esq. 

 Right Hon. T. S. Rice, Professor Babbage, Dr. Bowring, M. P., 

 T. Wyse, M.P., J. Simpson, Esq., Major Clerk, Professor Mounier, 

 Lord Sandon, Lord Nugent, C. Rowe, Esq., T. Moore, Esq., Rev. 

 W. L. Bowles. 



Monday. — This section having met in the chapter-house, was 

 soon organized, and occupied Monday with the reading of a long 

 and able paper by Dr. Cleland, contrasting the former and present 

 state of Glasgow. It entered into many curious inquiries, and pre- 

 sented some curious results. — As we propose giving a paper on the 

 statistics of Glasgow, Liverpool, and Manchester, in future num- 

 bers of The Analyst, we shall refrain from selecting any extracts 

 from these papers on the present occasion. 



Tuesday. — Mr. Kingsley, in exhibiting some formula? recom- 

 mended by him to be employed in making up the receipts of the 

 revenue and savings' banks returns, remarked upon what he consi- 

 dered every one present would concede, the inefficiency, for any sta- 

 tistical purpose, of the returns annually made by order of parliament. 



A very interesting communication was then made to the section 

 by Baron Dupin, on the Influence of the Prices of Corn on Popu- 

 lation. The Baron prefaced his observations by stating that it was 

 formerly held to be indisputable that times of great plenty were fa- 

 vourable, and, on the contrary, that times of scarcity were adverse, 

 to vitality. He had prepared, in France, from the eighty-six de- 

 partments, returns of the prices of wheat — and in France the returns 

 were officially and accurately taken — and also returns of baptisms, 

 burials, and marriages ; and he found that, in the fifteen years pre- 

 ceding the cholera, there were more marriages and births, and 

 fewer deaths, in the period when corn was at a medium price. 



Col. Sykes read an important paper " On the utility of co-operat- 

 ing committees of Trade and Agriculture, in the commercial and 

 manufacturing towns of Great Britain, as projected by the Right 

 Hon. Holt Mackenzie, and Mr. Forbes Royle, and advocated by the 

 Right Hon. Sir Alexander Johnstone, and Sir Chas. Forbes, Bart., 

 for investigating more extensively the natural and artificial produc- 

 tions of India." — The object of this paper was to incite the forma- 

 tion of committees in the manufacturing and commercial towns of 



