310 PROCEEDINGS OF PROVINCIAL SOCIETIES. 



A case of intermittent fever, characterized by some singular fea- 

 tures, was described by Dr. Carson, jun., who designated this unu- 

 sual and well-authenticated form of ague, which had yielded perma- 

 nently to the exhibition of quinine, as a case of ^' tertiana duplex 

 duplicata" 



November 18. — Dr. Carson, sen., took the chair, when a commu- 

 nication, to prove " That the doctrine, maintained by Mr. Brodie, 

 of ulceration of the cartilages being a frequent consequence of in- 

 flammation of the synovial membranes, is incorrect," was read by 

 Dr. Murphy, and was canvassed by several members. Dr. Vose, 

 and others, charged Dr. Murphy with having misrepresented Sir 

 Benjamin Brodie's views. The essayist defended himself from this 

 charge by simply referring to page 13 of the third edition of Mr. 

 Brodie's work. 



December 2. — An interesting case was narrated by Dr. Baird, 

 from the chair, on which an animated discussion arose, with practi- 

 cal remarks by Drs. Vose, Duncan, Anderson, Carson, Edwards, 

 and Thorburn. 



LIVERPOOL 

 I^ITERARY, SCIENTIFIC, AND COMMERCIAL INSTITUTION. 



At the request of the committee of this flourishing Institution, 

 (of which see our introductoiy notice in The Analyst for October), 

 Dr. Thorburn re-delivered the first of a course of lectures on the ob- 

 jects, advantages, and pleasures, derivable from a knowledge of Bo- 

 tany, with its applications to the arts, sciences, and purposes of life. 

 The lecture was delivered in the spacious lecture-room of the Royal 

 Institution, and, in addition to the subscribers to the St. Anne- 

 Street Institution, there were present a numerous and highly-re- 

 spectable assembly of visitors, clergy, and members of the Royal 

 Institution. 



Having made some prefatory observations. Dr. Thorburn adverted 

 to the difficulty of determining what should form " the fittest sub- 

 ject-matter for a lecture introductory j" the partial, if not erroneous, 

 views acted upon by many instructors ; and having stated his rea- 

 sons for preferring to describe, rather than prematurely to define, 

 the ideas, scope, and relations, of the term *' botany," he illustrated 

 how extremely limited were the ideas commonly entertained, and 

 which were not confined to the public, as to the intrinsic nature and 

 bearing of the science, whose philosophical relations are boundless. 



The proper period for submitting a disquisition upon, or entering 

 on a summary history of, the rise, progress, and prospects of botany, 

 was said to be at the close, not at the outset, of a course of lectures, 

 which, if elementary, should, in the opinion of the lecturer, be so 

 conducted as if the audience were addressed upon the subjects, or 



