152 Geographical Society of London. 



vinee of Andalusia in Spain. In Transylvannia, the places 

 which the nomadic gipsies inhabit during the winter, ought to 

 be called holes or burrows, rather than caves, which^ for farther 

 secvirity from the weather, are covered over with branches of 

 trees, with moss and turf. Dr Hibbert concluded his memoir 

 by recommending the history of European, and particularly of 

 Scottish caves, to the attention of the Society ; and by describ- 

 ino- the geological formation in which the search for them was 

 most likely to be attended with success. 



NEW SOCIETIES. 



1. Geographical Society of London. 2. Geological Society of 

 France. 3. Statistical Societies in France. 



1. Geographical Society of London. 



Wt arc happy in having an opportunity to lay before our 

 readers, the following interesting document, in regard to a pro- 

 jected Geographical Society in London. Such an institution 

 will, we feel confident, assist in raising the scientific character of 

 Geography in this country, where at present it is too much in 

 the hands of popular and unscientific writers. It will also excite 

 a more decided taste for geographical researches among geolo- 

 o-ists, zoologists, botanists, and also those travellers who visit 

 countries, not with the view of gossip, or the sheer greed of the 

 little money which may be extracted from a publisher, or for 

 the purpose of personal exhibition, but with the desire of en- 

 larging our knowledge of the physical, statistical, and moral 

 condition of different and distant lands. 



" At a numerous meeting of the Members of the Raleigh 

 Travellers' Club, and several other gentlemen, held at the 

 Thatched House, on Monday the 24th May, John Barrow, Esq. 

 in the Chair, it was submitted, that, among the numerous 

 literary and scientific societies established in the British metro- 

 polis, one was still wanting to complete the circle of scientific 

 institutions, whose sole object should be the promotion and dif- 



