290 NOTICES OF THE MEETINGS [April 8, 
Versuch einer Beschreibung von St. Petersburg, von J. G. Georgi. 8vo. St. 
Petersburg, 1790. 
East India Company, Hon.—A Dictionary,-English and Sanskrit, by Monier 
Williams, M.A. 4to. 1851. 
A Dictionary, Persian, Arabic, and English, by Francis Johnson. 4to. 1852. 
The Gulist4n (Rose-Garden) of Shekh SAdi of Shir4z. A new edition care- 
fully collated with original MSS., by E. B. Eastwick, M.R.A.S. 8vo. 1850. 
Anvar-i Suheli, or the Lights of Canopus, being the Persian version of the 
Fables of Bidpai, by Husain Vaiz Kashifi. Edited by Lieut.-Col. J. W. J. 
Ouseley. 4to. 1851. 
The Prem S4gar, or the Ocean of Love; being a History of Krishn ; translated 
into the Hindi by Lalla Lal. A new edition, with a Vocabulary, by E. B. 
Eastwick, M.R.A.S. 8vo. 1851. 
Faraday, M. Esq., F.R.S., &c.— Monatsbericht der Konig]. Preuss. Akademie, 
Jan. 1853. 8vo. 
Franklin Institute of Pennsylvania — Journal, Vol. XXIV. No.2. 8vo. 1852. 
Londesborough, The Lord, K.C.H., M.R.I.— Catalogue of a Collection of Ancient 
and Medieval Rings and Personal Ornaments formed for Lady Londes- 
borough. [By T. Crofton Croker, Esq.] (Privately Printed.) 4to. 1853. 
Lovell, E. B. Esq., M.R.I. (the Editor) —The Monthly Digest for March, 
1853. 8vo. 
Manning, Frederick, Esq., M.R.I.— Map of the Soke of Grantham. 
Moon, Robert, Esq., M.A. (the Author) —Light explained on the Hypothesis of 
the Ethereal Medium being a Viscous Fluid. PartI. 8vo. 1853. 
Noad, Henry, Ph.D., M.R.I. (the Author)—Chemical Manipulation and Analysis, 
Qualitative and Quantitative; with an Introduction. New Edition. 8vo. 
1852. 
Photographic Society-- Journal, No.1. 8vo. 1853. 
Manning, Frederick, Esq., M.R.I. — Cast of Cypher of Charles Cotton and Izaak 
Walton, over the door of the Fishing-house of Charles Cotton, near Beresford- 
Hall, Staffordshire. 
WEEKLY EVENING MEETING, 
Friday, April 8. 
Sir Cusuins Freutiows, Vice-President, in the Chair. 
Rev. W. Taytor, F.R.S.* 
Observations on different Modes of Educating the Blind. 
Tue Lecturer feeling that he was working in the cause of the blind, 
hoped that the importance of the subject would atone, in some 
degree at least, for the imperfect manner in which he should bring 
it before his audience; and that his want of skill as a lecturer would 
[(* Editor of ‘‘ Diagrams of Euclid, Book I.’’ and “Select Psalm-tunes,” 
both embossed for the use of the Blind; and author of ‘‘ Report to the Royal 
Scottish Society of Arts on the various Alphabets proposed for the use of the 
Blind,” and of a Report on Printing for the Blind, published by the British 
Association in their Seventh Report. ] 
