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The following Gentlemen were elected Fellows of the So- 

 ciety : 



1. J. Stuart Menteath, Esq. 



2. John Clark, M.D., K.H. 



The following Donations were presented : 



Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France. Tome vii. Feuiiles 

 20-23 ; and Tome viii. Feuiiles 1-20 — Par la Societe. 



Memoires de la Societe Geologique de France. Tome ii. Parts 1, 2. 

 — Par la Socu'te. 



Flora Batava, Nos. 80, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 109, and 111.—% the 

 King of Holland. 



On the Results of Experiments made on the Weight, Height, and 

 Strength, of above 800 Individuals. By Professor Forbes. 



On the Muscular EflFort required to ascend Planes of diflFerent In- 

 clinations. By Professor Forbes. 



Note relative to the supposed Origin of the deficient Rays in the 

 Solar Spectrum ; being an account of an Experiment made at 

 Edinburgh during the Annular Eclipse of 15th May 1836. 

 By Professor Forbes. 



On the Temperatures and Geological Relations of certain Hot 

 Springs, particularly those of the Pyrenees ; and on the Veri- 

 fication of Thermometers. By Professor Forbes. 



By the Author. 



Biographical Sketch of the late Edward Turner, M.D., Professor 

 of Chemistry in University College, London. By Robert 

 Christison, M.D., Professor of Materia Medica in the Univer- 

 sity of Edinburgh, &c. — By the Author. 



The American Journal of Science and Arts. Conducted by Ben- 

 jamin Silliman, M.D., LL.D. For October 1833, January 

 1833, and January and July 1837.— By the Editor. 



The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal for November and 

 December 1836, January, February, April and May 1837. 



First Part of the Nineteenth Volume of Asiatic Researches, or 

 Transactions of the Society instituted in Bengal for inquiring 

 into the History, the Antiquities, the Arts and Sciences, and 

 Literature of Asia. By the Society. 



The Anatomy, Particular and Surgical, of the Human Body, illus- 

 trated by a series of Engravings ; by A. Fyfe, F.R,C.S.E. 

 Corrected and arranged, and with explanatory letter-press, 



