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The following Communication was read: — 

 On the Anatomy of the Char. By Dr Knox. 

 This brief communication stated the results obtained from the 

 examination of the state of the Char which are caught in the Lakes 

 of Cumberland, particularly in relation to their food and habits of 

 living. This subject the Author promised to resume in another 

 paper. 



Dr Gregory exhibited the apparatus by which Dobereiner 

 effects the conversion of alcohol into acetic acid by the 

 action of platinum. 



Monday, Wt/i March 1835. 



The Right Hon. LORD GREENOCK, Vice-President, in 



the Chair. 



The following Donations were presented: — 



Transactions of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Ma- 



nufactiu-es, and Commerce, for the Session 1 833-34 ; being 



Part 1. of Vol. .50. — Br/ the Society. 

 Bulletin de la Society Geologique de France. Tome vi. Feuilles 



1-4. — By the Society. 

 Correspondence Mathematique et Physique de I'Observatoire de 



Bruxelles, publiee par le Directeur A. Quetelet. Tome viii. 



Livraison 4. — By tlie Author. 

 Nouveaux Memoires de TAcademie Royale des Sciences et Belles 



Lettres de Bruxelles. Tome viii. — By the Society. 

 Bulletin de I'Academie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres de 



Bruxelles, 1834. No. 25. — By tJie Academy. 

 Memorie della Reale Accademia della Scienze di Torino. Tome 



xxxvii By the Academy. 



Description des Nouvelles Alontres a Seconde, a I'usage des Inge- 



nieurs, des Physiciens, des Medecins, &c. composes par Henri 



Robert. — By the Authw. 

 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, for the 



year 1834. Part 2. 

 Proceedings of the Royal Society. Nos. 17, 18. 

 List of the Fellows of the Royal Society, 1834-35. 

 Report on the Adjudication of the Copley, Rumford, and Royal 



Medais: and Appointment of the Bakerian, Croonian,. and 



