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FOURTEENTH MEETING. 



Royal Institution. — May 15, 1854. 

 JOSEPH DICKINSON, M.D., F.L.S.,&c., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Francis Archer exhibited a living specimen of Beroe, taken by 

 Mr. Price at Birkenhead. 



Mr. T. C. Archer exhibited a large and interesting series of ropes, &c. 

 manufactured from vegetable fibre, principally the produce of the East 

 Indies ; also the celebrated fish poison from Demerara. 



The Rev. Abraham Hume, D.C.L., LL.D., F.S.A., &c., read a Paper 

 on the " Dialects of the English Language," being the continuation of 

 a Paper read before the Society on the 9th January, 1854. 



EXTRAORDINARY MEETING. 



Royal Institution. — May 99, 1854. 

 JOSEPH DICiaNSON, M.D., F.L.S., &c., President, in the Chair. 



The circular convening this meeting — " To receive the Report of the 

 Delegates appointed at an Extraordinary Meeting held the 31st March 

 last, ' To carry out further arrangements for the proposed amalgamation 

 with one or more of the other Learned Societies, and report thereon, 

 with a sketch of amended laws,' " having been read — 



The Secretary communicated the following resolutions, passed at a 

 Meeting of the Council held this evening, viz. : — 



1. "That this Council, finding that the union of the two Societies 

 under the proposed name is unpalatable to many of the older members 

 of this Society, is of opinion that the union is advisable only in case 

 the name of the 'Literary and Philosophical' be retained, without 

 change or addition." 



2. " That the Council consider that if the name of the Society is 

 changed, and a new code of laws adopted, the Society will no longer be 

 the old Literary and Philosophical Society, and that therefore the 



