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Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 



Vol. IV., Nos. 3, 4, 5. 8vo. — By the Academy. 

 Journal of the Statistical Society of London. Vol. XII., Part I. 



8vo. By the Society. 

 Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. No. 17. 8vo. — 



By the Society. 

 The Ethnological Journal. No. 9. 8vo. — By the Editor. 

 Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia. Vol. II., 



Nos. 9, 10, 11, 12. 8vo. — By the Editor. 

 A Monograph of the British Naked-eyed Medusae, with figures of all 



the species. By Edward Forbes, F.R.S. 4to. — By the Author. 



Monday, March 5, 1849. 



The Very Rev. Principal LEE, V.P., in the Chair. 



The following communication was read : — 



Biographical Notice of Dr Chalmers. By the Very Rev. E. 

 B. Ramsay. 



The writer of this paper commenced by stating his purpose of view- 

 ing Dr Chalmers as a public character only, and to avoid all questions 

 which belonged to the peculiar relations in which he stood to his own 

 religious communion ; and after a brief outline of the various cii'cum- 

 stances of his life, and the dates belonging to each, the paper pro- 

 posed to consider Dr Chalmers, — 

 I. As an Author. 

 II. As a Political Economist. 

 III. As a Speaker. 



I. Under the first head were noted the peculiarities of Dr Chal- 

 mers's mode of treating a subject, and the distinguishing points of his 

 style, the abundance of his imaginative faculty, and the effects 

 which were produced by it upon his writings. 



II. Under the head of political economy, the principal object was 

 to exhibit Dr Chalmers as a true Christian philanthropist. The cir- 

 cumstances connected with his management of the poor in St John's 

 parish, Glasgow, were detailed ; and the influence which thatexpcri- 



