Academy of Useful 



Tho. Denman, M. D. 

 John Dimsdale. 

 Henry Field. 

 Edward Ford. 

 Joseph Fox. 

 Will. M. Fraser, M.D. 

 William Gaitskell. 

 Wrn. Hamilton, M.D. 

 John Hingcston. 

 Everard Home. 

 Robert Hooper, M. D. 

 Joseph Hiirlock. 

 John Jones, 

 Thomas Key. 

 Francis Knight, 

 E. Leese. 

 L. Leese. 



January 2, 1806. 



Sciences al Efurt, B^ 



William Lewis. 

 William Lister, M. D. 

 Alex. Marcet, M.D. 

 Joseph Hart Myers, M. D, 

 James Parkinson. 

 Thomas Paytherus. 

 ,Tohn Pearson. 

 George Recs, M. D. 

 John Gihbs Ridout. 

 J. Squire, M. D. 

 James Upton. 

 J. Christian WachselL 

 Thomas Walshman, M. D. 

 Robert Willan, M.D. 

 Allen Williams. 

 James Wilson, 

 J. Yelloly, M. D. 



John Walker, 

 Secretary to the council. 



ACADEMY OF USEFUL SCIENCES AT ERFURT. 



Professor Bernardi is returned to Erfurt from his five 

 months tour through the Carinthian Alps. Notwithstand- 

 ing the difficulties he had to encounter from unfavourable 

 weather and the operations of the war, he has no reasons to 

 be dissatisfied with the result of hi.'i journey. He has made 

 g number of new discoveries which he is Jibout to publish. 

 Jn an essay read before the academy, on the 2d of De- 

 cember, he says: " It surely canuot he supposed that our 

 country has been yet sufficiently examined. /); the southern. 

 part of it, in particular, there are many hidden treasures of 

 science; and it is inconteatably a great error in our country- 

 men to travel into foreign countries, forgettmg the treasures 

 of which Germany has to boast." The first proof which the 

 professor exhibited of this fact was by the communication 

 of two kinds of the herb Speedwell or Fluellin, not yet 

 hitherto sufficiently w-ell described, and which nearly re- 

 semble the Feroidca spicita. The one he calls Veronica 

 1 ciistata, 



