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in Lancashire, after death." By John George Children, Esq. 

 F.R.S. 



Thursday, Dec. 13. — A paper was read, " On the Con- 

 centric adjustment of a triple Object Glass." By W. H. Wol- 

 laston, M.D. and V.P.R.S. 



On the same evening a communication was also read, entitled, 

 " On a new species of Rhinoceros, found in the interior of 

 Africa ; the skull of which bears a close resemblance to that 

 found in a fossil state in Siberia, and other Countries : by Sir 

 Everard Home, Bt., V.P.R.S." 



Thursday, Dec. 20. — A paper was read on the Electrical 

 Phenomena exhibited in vacuo, by Sir H. Davy, Bart., P.R.S. 



The Society then adjourned over the Christmas Vacation, to 

 meet again on Thursday, the 10th of January, 1822. 



Art. XIII. Account of the Progress of Foreign Science. 



The daily increasing intercourse between this country and 

 foreign nations, has enabled us to extend and systematize this 

 valuable department of a scientific journal. In future, the 

 account of foreign science will be presented in the following 

 order : 



I. CnrMiCAL Science. 1. Principles of combination. 

 2. Repulsive power or caloric. 3. Simple bodies. 4. Inor- 

 ganic compounds ; acids, bases, salts, 4"C. 5. Organic com- 

 pounds, vegetable and animal. 6. Analysis and chemical 

 apparatus. 



II. Applications of Chemistry, to Medicine and the 

 Arts ; Agriculture, Bleaching, Dyeing, Sfc. 



III. Physics; Optics, Electricity, Magnetism, Acoustics, 4*c- 



IV. Mechanics. 1. Statics, Dynamics. 2. Hydrostatics 

 and Hydrodynamics. 3. ./Erostatics and Pneumatics. 



V. Nati'ral History ; Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Geo- 

 logy, Meteorology. 



VI. Economics; or miscellaneons applications of Science to 

 the ordinary uses of life. 



The deficiencies in any of the above departments which 



