Royal Irish Academy, Royal Institution of Cornwall, Aca- 

 demy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Franklin Institute 

 of the State of Pennsylvania, Physical and Natural History 

 Society of Geneva, Natural History Society of Strasbourg, 

 Royal Academy of Sciences of Brussels, Imperial Academy 

 of Sciences of St. Petersburgh, Imperial Society of Natural- 

 ists of Moscow, Royal Academy of Sciences of Paris, Mu- 

 seum of Natural History of Paris and the Institut Royal des 

 Pays-Bas. Also a Series of the Publications of the Camden 

 Society, by P. Kernan, Esq., F.Z.S. 



Donations have also been received from Wm. Yarrell, 

 Jacob Bell, Edward Newman and J. Saunders, Esqrs. ; from 

 the Editors of the Athenagum Journal, the London Physio- 

 logical Journal, and London Polytechnic Magazine ; Dr. 

 McClelland, Dr. Andrew Smith and Isaac Lea, Esq., Corr. 

 Members ; the Prince of Canino and Musignano, Mons. 

 Gotthelf Fischer of Waldheim and Mons. Geoffroy St. Hi- 

 laire, Foreign Members, Signer Costa, Mons. Pictet. 



3. Scientific Meetings and Publications. 



The Council have much pleasure in announcing that they 

 have secured the services of Mr. Montgomery, a Graduate of 

 the University of Dublin, to replace the late Assistant Scien- 

 tific Secretary. Mr. Montgomery came into office on the 1st 

 of January, and has already cleared off the outstanding ar- 

 rears in the publications of the Society, besides completing 

 an arranged Catalogue of the Library, and a General Index 

 to the Proceedings of the Society, from the commencement 

 of their publication down to December 1843. This has been 

 a work of considerable labour, but it will be of great value to 

 all who have occasion to refer to the scientific works of the 

 Society. The publication of the Proceedings is now com- 

 pleted up to November. The December number will shortly 

 be ready for delivery; and the manuscript up to the 1st of 

 the present month is already in the hands of the printer. 



With respect to the Scientific Meetings, symptoms of re- 

 viving interest in this important department have been mani- 

 fested since the removal of the Society into the new house in 

 Hanover Square ; and it is hoped that the convenient central 



