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cubic inches, each pound of blood would contain at least five cu- 

 bic inches of carbonic acid. It will be observed that no circum- 

 stance opposes the proposed theory ; hence the experiments prove 

 that the quantity of carbonic acid contained in venous blood, is 

 more than sufficient to furnish the quantity required. 



ZOOLOGY. 



2. Presentation of the Wollaston Medal to Professor Owen. 



At a late meeting of the Geological Society of London, the 

 President announced that the Wollaston Medal for the last 

 year had been awarded to Professor Richard Owen, and on 

 presenting it to him Mr Whewell expressed himself in the fol- 

 lowing terms : — 



" Mr Owen, — I have peculiar pleasure in presenting you 

 with this medal, awarded to you by this Society, for your ser- 

 vices to fossil zoology in general, and in particular for the de- 

 scription of the fossil mammalia collected by Mr Darwin. I 

 trust it will be a satisfaction to you to receive this our testi- 

 mony of the success with which you have cultivated that great 

 science of comparative zoology, to which you have devoted 

 your powers. I trust it will add to your satisfaction, to con- 

 sider, that the subject which we more peculiarly wish to mark 

 on this occasion, — the study of fossil zoology, is one to which 

 the resources of your science were applied, wliile the subject was 

 yet new, by that great man-^John Hunter,— whose museum 

 and whose reputation are so worthily assigned to your care. 

 I trust also that this medal, thus awarded to you, at the out- 

 set, if I may so say, of an enlarged series of investigations, wilL 

 convey to you the assurance that, in your progress in such re- 

 searches, you carry with you our strong interest in your endea- 

 vours, and our high esteem of your powers and your objects ; 

 and will convince you, that in all your successes, you may 

 reckon upon our most cordial sympathy in the pleasure which 

 your discoveries give." 



3. Communication of the Poison of Hydrophobia or Rabies 

 from one Imman being to another. By Dr Haxthausen, Dis- 

 trict Physician at Neisse. — A servant received a slight wound 

 from a young shepherd's dog in the right hand, and eight weeks 

 afterwards, became affected with hydrophobia, although he 



