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Domestic and Foreign. 



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the traiisiictions of tlie society was publish- 

 cU tills (lay, and copies were distributed to 

 the members. 



MEDICO-BOTANirAL SOl'IHTY OF LONDON. 



This society Iield its aimivcrsary on the 

 16th January, when the following officers 

 and council were elected for the present 

 year: — Vice-Presidents, William Thomas 

 Brande, Esq.; Sir Astley Coo])er, Bart., 

 F.R.s. ; Sir Alex. Chriclitoi}, f.r.s. ; .Sir 

 William Franklin, f.r.s. ; Edward Thomas 

 Munro, md. ; John Ayrton Paris, ji.d., 

 F.n.s. Treasurer, Henry Drummond, F2sq., 

 F.s.A. Secretaiy, Richard iNIorris, Esq., 

 F.l..t. Director, John Frost, Esq., f.s.a. 

 Auditor of accounts, William Newman, 

 Esq. Council, the President, Vice-Pre- 

 sidents, and other officers ; together with 

 Tho mas Gibbs, Esq., f.ii .s. ; Theodore 

 imtittfUntl, il.D.', M.ii.A.^ , 'I'Umiijjs Jones, 

 K Esq. ; George H. Roe, ji.d. ; Johv. Gor- 

 don Smith, M.D. ; Milliam Yarrell, 



F.I.S. 



The gold medal of the society was award- 

 ed to Matthew Curling Friend, Esq., Lieut. 

 R.N. and F.R.S., for his communications re- 

 specting certain articles of Materia Medica 

 used in Africa; and the silver medal to 

 James Hunter, Esq., f.h.s. 



GF,OLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Nov. 1 8th, 1825. — A notice was read 

 respecting the appearance of " Fossil Tim- 

 ber on the Norfolk coast," by Richard 

 Taylor, Esq., of Norwich. An extract of 

 a letter from the Right Hon. Earl Comp- 

 ton, F.G.S., to the President, was read, " On 

 the discovery of Granite with green Felspar, 

 found in excavations at Tivoli." In exca- 

 vations made during the spring of 1825 at 

 Tivoli, on the spot where the villa of Man- 

 lius Vopiscus stood, fragments of granite 

 were discovered, the felspar of which is of a 

 green colour, exactly resembling that which 

 is called amazonian stone. As this rock 

 was never before known to be among those 

 employed by the ancients, it becomes a cu- 

 rious point to ascertain whence they de- 

 rived it, since the modem localities of the 

 amazonian stone are confined to Siberia 

 and the continent of America. As Egyp- 

 tian hieroglyphics appear on the original 

 surface of some of these fragments. Lord 

 Compton supposes the green granite to have 

 been found, though a very rare substance, 

 in Egypt. 



A paper was also read, entitled, " No- 

 tice of traces of a Submarine Forest at 

 Charmouth, Dorset," by H. T. De la 

 Beche, Esq., f.r.s., g.s., &e. A circum- 

 stance, seeming to indicate the existence of 

 the remains of a submarine forest near the 

 mouth of the Char, was lately pointed out 

 to M. De la Beche by ]Miss Maiy Anning. 



Dec. 2. — A paper, entitled, " Remarks 

 on the Geology of Jamaica," by H. T. De 



la Beche, Esq., r.a.i., was read in i)art,&c. 

 A paper was also read, entitled, " An .\c- 

 couiit of an nndescribed Fossil Animal, 

 from the Yorkshire Coal-field," by John 

 Atkinson, f.l.s., and Edward .Sanderson 

 George, f.l.s. 



Dec. IG. — A paper was read, " On the 

 Chalk and Sands beneath it (usually termed 

 green sand), in the vicinity of Lyme Re- 

 gis," by H. T. De la Bciiie, Esq., r.o.s. 

 A paper was also read, entitled, " A Geo- 

 logical Sketch of part of the West of .Sussex 

 and the North-east of Hant«, &:c.," by R. 

 J. Murchison, Esq., f.g.s., &c. 



And on 6th Jan. 1826, tlie reading of 

 IVL De la Bechc's jiaper " On the Geology 

 of Jamaica" was continued. 



FOREIGN. 



rRANCE. 



Paris. — Proceedings of die Institute. 

 At the last meeting of Hie Acadeuiy of 

 Sciences, a communication wa.s received 

 from M. De Gregori, relative to the recent 

 progress of vaccination in I'iedmont. In 



^0 the vaccinations amounted to .■i2,2.5.'>, 

 1824. to 68,4o2; tlie annual number 

 of bir?Ks may be estimated at 116,900. 

 The Kiii^^f Sardinia has highly distin. 

 guished thoN^ whose zeal has ])rincipally 

 contributed to these fortunate events. M. 

 Dumeril has been elected to the chair of 

 zoology for reptiles and fish, vacant by tlic 

 death of M. De Lacepede, whom M. De 

 Blainiille has been chosen to succeed as 

 member of the academy in the section of 

 anatomy and zoology. 31. Poisson read a 

 memoir, entitled, " Solution of a Problem 

 relative to Terrestrial Magnetism;'' on 

 which occasion M. De la Place offered 

 some observ-dtions on different elements of 

 the actual state of the earth, which it would 

 be important to determine at present, to 

 serve as a point of departure for the obser- 

 A-ations of future Jiges, viz. 1. Terrestrial 

 magnetism. 2. The pressure of the at- 

 mosphere. 3. The actual temperature of 

 the globe. He required the academy to 

 nominate a committee for this purpose, 

 when M. De la Place himself, Messrs Ara- 

 go, Poisson, Thenard, Guy-Lussac, Fourier 

 and Dulong, were appointed to draw up 

 pre\-iously an outline of the experiments. 



Atiierunim. — The proceedings at the re- 

 opening of this institution disappointed the 

 auditors ; with the exception of a discourse 

 by M. B. Constant, of which indeed it is 

 impossible to .speak in sufficiently high 

 terms, every other commimication seems 

 to have fallen below mediocrity. 



PRUSSIA. 



Berlin. — At the last meeting of the Aca- 

 demy of Sciences of this city, M. Jacler, 

 the author of an excellent work, entitled 

 Chronologie Mathcmatique, recently pub- 

 lished, comrauiiicated a memoir on the year 

 of the birth of Jesus Christ, and examined 



