154 NOTICES OF THE MEETINGS [March 12, 
In the Library were exhibited : — 
Testimonial (in silver) to Dr. Conolly, by Messrs. Hunt and 
Roskell. 
Geological Section of Well sunk at the Bank of England, Jan. 1852. 
[Exhibited by Thomson Hankey, jun. Esq., Governor of the Bank. | 
Two Cases of Indian Butterflies—Lion’s Cubs an Elephant’s 
Tusk,—from the United Service Institution. 
Sundhya, or Daily Prayers of the Brahmins, illustrated by Mrs. S. C. 
Belnois — Japanese Sandals, Reaping-hook, Pen and ink case, 
Telescope-tube, Playing-Cards, Tea-kettle, and Tobacco-pouch 
— Chinese and Japanese Dictionary —- Tablet of Earth from tomb 
of Ali, used at their devotions by the Mahometans of the Shiah 
Sect, — from the Royal Asiatic Society. 
Femur of the Plesiosaurus, from the Kimmeridge Clay, Bucks — 
Ammonites heterophyllus — Vertebrz of Ichthyosaurus from Lias, 
Lyme, Dorset — Fossil wood, &c. [Exhibited by Mr. Tennant. | 
Varley’s Microscope with Lever stage movement, shewing Infusoria, 
Rotatoria, Monoculi or Water fleas, in which the heart was seen 
beating, and all their internal structure, their eggs, their young, 
and the muscles which move the eyes. 
WEEKLY EVENING MEETING, 
Friday, March 19. 
Wm. Poux, Esq., M.A., F.R.S., Treasurer and Vice President, 
in the Chair. 
J. J. Bressy, M.D., F.G.S., 
Member of the American Philosophical Society (late British Secretary to the 
Canadian Boundary Commission), 
On the Physical Geography, Geology, and Commercial Resources of 
Lake Superior. 
[Tux following statements are partly derived from the able reports 
and charts of Messrs. Bayfield, Logan, Foster, Owen, and others 
in the service of the governments of Great Britain and the United 
States, Dr. Bigsby’s own researches on the northern shores of the 
Lake, for 440 miles, having supplied the remainder. ] 
Laxr Surerror is included between W. Longitude 84° 18" and 
92° 19’— and N. Latitude 46° 29’— 49° 1’. It is to the east 
of, and near to, the swell of high land which, stretching from the 
Rocky Mountains to Lake Superior, in wide undulating plains, 
