Learned Societies. $\J 



froth what refts only upon weak grounds. The intention of 

 (his part of the queftion will therefore be fufficiently fulfilled, 

 though the author may not be able to enrich his anfwer with 

 new difcoveries. 



Thofe who wifh to become candidates for this prize muft 

 pay attention to fome of the modern publications upon the 

 lame fubje£t, and in this refpecl: much information may be 

 obtained from F. A. Humbcldt's Aphorifms drawn from the 

 themical phyfiology of plants * v 



GERMAN!*. 



On the 13th of January Iaft the Mineralogical Society of 

 Jena celebrated, at the ducal palace there, the firff anniver- 

 fary of their eftablifhment : on which occafion the dire&or, 

 Profefior Lenz, gave a hiftory of the Institution, and of the 

 progrefs of the Society; M. Samuel Nagy, fecretary of the 

 Hungarian nation, read a chemico-mineralogical hiftory of 

 Hungary; M. Von Ori of Kots in Hungary, delivered a 

 congratulatory addrefs in Latin; M« Aarn of Leibitz, in 

 Hungary, delineated a view of the great importance of mi- 

 neralogy to Hungary ; Dr. Von Gerftenbcrg (hewed the in- 

 fluence of mineralogy on the wants of human life and the 

 profperity of foeiety; and M. Panfner, of Arnftadt, gave a 

 fhort view of the iuperftitious employment of many fpecies 

 of itoncs in ancient and modern times. 



The fitting was clofed by the Secretary returning thanks 

 to the members aHembled for the part they had taken in 

 promoting the object of the Society ; and by M. von Paz- 

 mandi, of Bong in Hungary, exprefling his wifhes for the 

 future fuccefs of the Inftitution. 



His fcrene highnefs the duke of Saxe Weimar and 

 Eilenach has been pleafed to grant the Society permiffion to 

 hold their future fittings in the large hall of the ducal palace,, 



* The title of the original is F. A. ITumbddt'3 Apborifmen aas der Che- 

 rnifeben Phyjlolvgie dtr Pflanxoi- Leipz'g 1794, Svo. 



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