388 Linnean Society. 
other cases, a few ounces occasioned delirium, paralysis, and 
death. Sir Everard made several sections of the different kinds 
of ulceration of the brain, and detailed minutely their corporeal 
and mental effects. He also noticed that the cerebellum might 
be wounded without the patient knowing it; that part of it might 
be extravasated without danger, ,but that any wound in the pia 
mater was extremely painful. 
The Society then adjourned to the 9th of June. 
LINNEAN SOCIETY. 
On Tuesday the 24th instant the Anniversary Meeting of the 
Linnean Society of London was held at the-Society’s house in. 
Gerrard-street, Soho, for the election of a Council and Officers 
for the present year, when the following Members were elected 
of the Council, viz. 
James Edward Smith, M. D. Thomas Marsham, Esq. 
Samuel, Lord Bishop of Carlisle. | Wm. George Maton, M.D. 
Sir T. G. Cullum, bart. Daniel Moore, Esq. 
Philip Derbishire, Esq. Joseph Sabine, Esq. 
Mr. James Dickson. Thomas Smith, Esq. 
Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Esq. | William Smith, Esq. M. P. 
W. E. Leach, M.D. Edward Lord Stanley. 
Alexander Macleay, Esq. 
And the following were declared to be the Officers for the pre- 
sent year, viz. 
James Edward Smith, M. D. President. 
Samuel, Lord Bishop of Carlisle, 
Wm. George Maton, M. D. 
Thomas Marsham, Esq. 
A. B. Lambert, Esq. 
Thomas Marsham, Esq. Treasurer. 
Alexander Macleay, Esq. 2 g . 
Mr. Richard Taylor, t Fe oat 
_ The Members of the Society afterwards dined together at the 
Freemasons’ Tavern, Great Queen-street, according to annual 
custom. 
Vice Presidents. 
ROYAL MEDICAL SOCIETY, EDINBURGH. 
The Royal Medical Society propose as the subject of their 
Prize Essay for the year 1815 the following question : : 
“The comparative specific caloric of vemous and arterial 
blood.”’ 
A set of books, or a medal of five guineas value, shall be given, 
annually to the author of the best dissertation on an experi- 
mental subject“proposed by the Society ; for which all the Mem- 
. bers, honorary, extraordinary, ‘atid ordinary, shall alone be in- 
vited as candidates, 
The 
