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has presented a remarkably fine skin of the Boa constrictor, shot 

 whilst swiming across a creek, with a deer in its mouth, by Captain 

 Macleod. Mr. Hunter has contributed the rare skull of the red 

 Ourarig Oiitang of Borneo, sister of the living specimen now exhibit- 

 ing in the Zoological Gardens, London. That flourishing Society 

 has transmitted to the honorary secretary of the School, the follow- 

 ing liberal resolution, viz., — " that the Society, with pleasure, are 

 willing to present to the museum of the Birmingham School of 

 Medicine, the bodies of animals dying in the Society's menagerie 

 and not required for their own purpose." 



The attention of the profession is called to some beautiful wax 

 models, executed by Mr. Hardy, of Gloucester, especially to the 

 case of osteosarcoma J presented by Mr. J. Fowke, of Wolverhamp- 

 ton. 



The following gentlemen form the officers for the ensuing year : 



Committee of Management, — The Rev. Chancellor Law ; Rev. 

 Egerton Bagot ; James Taylor, Esq. ; Edward Johnstone, M. D. ; 

 John Johnstone, M. D., F. R. S. ; Mr. Armfield ; Mr. E. T. Cox ; 

 Mr. B Guest; Mr. J. E. Piercy ; Mr. H. Smith; Mr. J. G. 

 Reeves; Mr. J. W. Unett. 



Auditors of Accounts, — Mr. Armfield; Mr. J. G. Reeves. 



Visitors,~Mv. G. Attwood ; Mr. E. T. Cox; Mr. J. E. Piercy; 

 ]Mr. Charles Shaw. 



BIRMINGHAM PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTION. 



The lectures announced in the last annual report to be delivered at 

 this institution during the autumn of 1835, were, a course " On 

 Mental Phenomena connected with the exercise of the Imagination,'' 

 by INIr. L. Parker, and one •' On the early English Opera," by Mr. 

 Edward Taylor. Of the former, the three first lectures only were 

 given, the delivery of the remaining two lectures being unavoidably 

 postponed for some time. Mr. Parker's first lecture will be seen in 

 another part of the present number. In place of the fourth and 

 fifth lectures of Mr. Parker, lectures were delivered on the 9th 

 and 16th of November, by Mr. Russell, " On the discovery of a 

 Toad found alive imbedded in a solid mass of new red Sand- stone," 

 the depositions relating to which circumstance were given in the 

 last number of The Analyst; and by Dr. Corrie, " On the flowing 

 of Sand under pressure." Of this latter lecture, which was pre- 

 pared and delivered to the members at a very short notice, the fol- 

 lowing is a brief and imperfect outline :-— 



The lecturer first adverted to some of the ordinary phenomena 

 which are observed in fluids, both when in motion and at rest ; 



