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PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 
8 SU <PlOMESTIC. 
ES TERN Literary and Scientific In- 
yi "stitution. —A meeting was held, at the 
Fr eemasons’ Hall, onthe evening of the 10th 
ie November, for the purpose of carrying into 
effect a society under the above title. The 
design was ably supported by speeches from 
H. Drummond, Esq. (who was in the 
chair), Sir J. Paul, Messrs. T. Campbell, 
M, J. Wright, J. C. Hobhouse, Brougham, 
Drs. Birkbeck and Gilchrist, and others. 
Tt was stated that the object was to 
establish a Public Library, Reading 
Rooms, and Scientific Lectures, for the 
tse of those engaged in professional or 
commercial pursuits ; and a series of reso- 
lutions to such end were agreed upon. 
Society of Physicians.—A meeting of 
the Society of Physicians of the United 
Kingdom was holden, November the 2d, 
when the following officers were elected for 
the ensuing year:—President, Dr. Birk- 
beck; Treasurer, Dr. Clutterbuck; Secre- 
tary, Dr. Shearman. It was also resolved, 
that communications, whether from mem- 
hers or others, addressed to the secretary, 
should be submitted to the consideration of 
the society, and the most interesting and 
- important of them be selected for pub- 
lication as soon as sufficient materials 
should be collected to form a volume. 
FOREIGN. 
ITALY—TUSCANY. 
The Academy of Sciences, Literature, 
and Arts, in the city of Leghorn, last year 
(1824) proposed a prize for the solution of 
the following problem : 
ist. To determine the Influence, useful 
or hurtful, of different States of Memory 
on Human Understanding, and its Utili- 
ties with regard to the other Faculties. 
2d. To shew by what Educational 
Means the Memory may be developed and 
strengthened in Youth. 
3d. To seek, by what other Methods, in 
the after-ages of Man, a defective Memory 
may be corrected, whether resulting from 
imperfect Organization, or from Aecident 
or Disease. 4 
4th. To examine what particular. result 
may be hoped for, consequent of the doc- 
trine of the Association of Ideas, con- 
sidered as it actually obtains, and in the 
state of progress of which it appears sus- 
ceptible. 
FRANCE. 
School of Arts and Trades, at Chalons : 
Marne.—The annual solemnity of the dis- 
tribution of prizes had been held; nearly 
200 persons (mostly pupils of the ‘institu 
tion) were rewarded; the plan of this use- 
ful establishment combines instruction in 
the practical branches of trade, in the theo- 
rical measurements of philosophy, and in 
the ornamental graces of the fine arts. 
CALCUTTA AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
At a meeting on the 22d of March, Mr. 
Moorcroft, now on his travels, presented 
several packages of seeds, being wild pear, 
swamp onion, shingtik, choosta roorora, 
chee kus, to chan, red wilding apple, nus 
toogshzoor, small sweet apple, red and 
white crab apple, white kussora, apricot, 
melon, buck wheat, lucerne, prangos, saf- 
fron, &c. &c.—Dr. Lamb presented a 
quantity of coffee, produced upon his es- 
tate at Dacca, for which he receiyed the 
appointed prize. 
BERLIN. 
The last sitting of the academy, in this 
city, was rendered more than usually in- 
teresting by the presence of M. G. de 
Humboldt, brother to the celebrated trayel- 
ler and naturalist,’ Baron de Humboldt, 
who read a translation of parts of the Bha- 
gavid Gita (in verse) ; and by adding some 
strictures on Greek and Hindoo metaphy- 
sics, this learned translator of Pindar and of 
Sophocles shewed himself equally master of 
the mysteries of the Celtic, Sanscrit and 
primitive idioms of the world. 
\ 
oa x «PATENTS FOR MECHANICAL AND CHEMICAL 
yf 
iy ui INVEN TIONS. 
it 
T Witi1am Cuurcu, of Birmingham, Sor 
is Invention 0 a certain Improvements in 
Machinery in Printing.—19th Feb. 1824. 
HESE improvements in machinery for 
printing consist in variations, additions 
and modifications of an apparatus for print- 
ing, described in the specification of a patent, 
&e., granted 21st of March 1822. The 
improyements are embraced under the fol- 
lowing heads:—Ist...A method of adjust- 
ing and fixing the form of types upon the 
table, and of removing the same, and re- 
placing other forms of types with great 
expedition :—2dly. Adapting a stationary 
surface, upon which the paper intended to 
be printed is laid and adjusted, ready to be 
drawn off on the frisket :—3dly. A mode 
of obtaining register with perfect accuracy : 
—4thly. The means and apparatus em- 
ployed for confining the sheet of paper 
upon the frisket :-—5thly. .An inter- 
rupted gear motion, or mechanical ‘con- 
trivance to effect a reciprocating action, by 
which certain parts of the machinery are 
continuing 
