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WEEKLY EVENING MEETING, 
Friday, April 22. 
Sir CuHares Frtiows, Vice-President, in the Chair. 
Joun Conotty, M. D. 
On the Past and Present Condition of the Insane, and the Characters of 
Insanity. 
[Dr. Conoxty has been unavoidably prevented from supplying an 
abstract of his discourse. ] 
WEEKLY EVENING MEETING, 
Friday, April 29th. 
Srr Cuarues Fettows, Vice-President, in the Chair. 
W. Brocxepon, Esqa., F.R.S. 
On the treatment of Foreign Wines and the extensive injuries recently 
caused by a Fungus on the Grape. 
Mr. Brockepon stated that his original intention had been to 
mention only such facts as had formerly come under his observation 
in certain wine districts in France, as to the treatment of wines, 
more especially those of Champagne, but that the fatal malady 
which was now desolating the vineyards of France and which had 
last year been observed by him, would form a painful part of his 
communication, 
In the year 1842, he had been induced to visit Champagne and 
Bordeaux, and again in 1843 the former district, to recommend to 
the wine-merchants a trial of his patented mode of securing wine in 
bottles by means not liable to injury by insects or climate. 
A stay of some weeks, at different seasons, in his visit to Cham- 
pagne, enabled him to observe the treatment of the valuable product 
of the district, and to visit the principal vineyards and establish- 
ments at Epernay, Rheims, and Chalons-sur-Marne, during the 
vintage and the spring following. 
Mr. Brockedon exposed the common error that the wine of 
Champagne was made of unripe fruit, an idea which must have 
