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ration of the same plant with the modern Conium maculatum. Tlie 

 author shewed, from the descriptions of the Greek Kmunv and Ro- 

 man cicuta, that this plant could not be the modern conium ; that 

 the account given by Plato of the effects of the state-poison in the 

 case of Socrates is wholly at variance with the description by Ni- 

 cander and others of the action of the Kumav ; that the effects 

 ascribed to the poison in Plato's narrative are such as no poison 

 whatever which is known at present can produce ; and that conse- 

 quently either Plato's description is an embellished narrative, or 

 the ancients were familiar with a poison of most remarkable and 

 peculiar properties, with which modern toxicologists are no longer 

 acquainted. 



2. The reading of a paper on the Geology of Auvergne, by 

 Professor Forbes, was commenced. 



Monday^ '■Zist December 1835. 

 Dr HOPE, V. P. in the Chair. 



The following Donations were presented : 



Address delivered in the Hall of Marischal College, Aberdeen, 3th 

 November 1835, on occasion of his Installation as Lord Rec- 

 tor of the University, by John Abercromble, M. D. Oxon and 

 Edinburgh, V. P. R. S. E. &c. &c — By the Author. 



Astronomische Nachrichten. Nos. 268. to 288. — By M. Bessel. 



Natuur-en Scheikundig Archief. Uitgegeven door G. J. Mulder. 

 1835, stuk iii — By the Editor, 



Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Nos. 19. and 20. 



Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 1835. Part 1. — By 

 the Roycd Society. 



Geometrical Investigations concerning the Phenomena of Terres- 

 trial Magnetism. By Thomas Stephens Davies, Esq. F. R. S. 

 L. & E — By the Author. 



Proceedings of the Geological Society of London. Nos. 40. and 

 41. — By the Society. 



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

 Bruxelles. 1834, Nos. 25, 26, 27 ; and 1835, Nos. 1, 2, 3. 



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

 Bruxelles. — By the Academy. 



