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volume of the Phil. Trans, of London, descriptive of a case, in 

 which a lad, blind from birth, had at eighteen years of age the 

 sight of one eye restored. But the eye being distorted towards the 

 nose, the rectus internus muscle was cut across. The consequence 

 of til is was, that he no longer saw objects in their right position. 

 They appeared placed to that side on which the muscle had been cut. 

 The author's explanation is, that the tendon of the muscle being 

 cut off from its attachment to the ball of the eye, the muscle con- 

 tracted, and sensibility to this contraction being associated with the 

 impression on the retina, produced a false perception of the place of 

 objects. 



The author concluded by expressing his doubt whether his course 

 of study fitted him to be a competent judge of some of those matters. 

 He could not resist the conclusion, that these required the exercise 

 of a double sense, and an operation of the mind of the nature of 

 comparison, to rouse to consciousness and the knowledge of exter- 

 nal existences. 



2. Geological Notes on the Alps of Dauphine. By Professor 

 Forbes. Part 1st. See Proceedings of the next Meeting. 



The following Gentlemen were duly elected Ordinary Fellows 



of the Society : — 



John Davy, M.D. ; 



Robert Nasmyth, Esq., F.R.C., Surg. 



The following Donations were presented to the Society 

 since the last Meeting : — 



Twelfth Report of the Scarborough Philosophical Society. 1841. 



— By the Society, 

 Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Seances de I'Academie des 



Sciences. Tome xiv. Nos. 4, 5, 6, 7- — By the Academy. 

 Report of the Commissioners appointed to consider the steps to be 



taken for Restoration of the Standards of Weight and Mea- 



sure. — By the Commissioners. 

 Letter to the Right Honourable George Earl of Aberdeen, on the 



State of the Schools of Chemistry, in the United Kingdom. 



By W. Gregory, M.D., F.R.S.E., &c.—By the Author. 



