66 Royal Society. 



niav be placed ; and for the Preservation of the Health of 

 Armies upon Foreign Service. By J. G. V. Millingen, M.D. 

 Surgeon to His Majesty's Forces; Associate of the Medical So- 

 cieties of the Faculty of Paris; and Corresponding Member of 

 the Royal Medical Society of Bordeaux. 

 This publication w'ill fully detail the various duties connected 

 with the following important points : 



Organization of the Medical Department of an Army — Forma- 

 tion of a Field Corps of Hospital Ambulance — Arrangement pre- 

 paratory to the sailing of an Expedition — Duties during the Voy- 

 age — Disembarkation — Establishment of General and Convale- 

 scent Hospitals — Hospital for Sick and Wounded Officers — De- 

 pots — Arrangements prior to taking the Field — Duties upon a 

 March — Bivouacs-^rEncampments — Cantonments — Regimental 

 and Brigade Hospitals — Duties during and after a Battle — Field 

 Hospitals — Intermediate Hospitals, and Movement of the Sick 

 and Wounded to the Rear — Duties with a besieging Force, or 

 with a besieged Garrison — Duties upon a Retreat — Reinforce- 

 ments moving to the Front — Re-embarkation of Troops in pre- 

 sence of an Enemy — General Conclusions and Recapitulation. 



Parti, of Pathological andPractical Remarks oil Ulcerations 

 of the Genital Organs, &c. By James Evans, Surgeon of 

 His Majesty's 57th Regiment of Foot. 



XIV. Proceedings of Learned Societies. 



ROYAL SOCIETY. 



April 22. A LETTER was read from Mr. .Tohn Freeman Wood 

 toW, G, Maton, M.D., containing an account of a caseof mal- 

 conformation of the heart. 



Another paper communicated by Dr. Thomas Young was 

 read, entitled " Observations on the new System of diagonal 

 Framing introduced by R. Seppings, Esq. into His Majesty's 

 Navy ;" by William Morgan, Esq. 



May 6. — A paper by Dr. Brewster was read, On the optical 

 and physical Properties of Tabasheer. The substance called Taba- 

 sheer, from the Persian Scher, or the Sanscrit Kschiram, signi- 

 fying milk, has been long known in eastern countries, and formed 

 an important article in the Materia Medica of the Arabian phy- 

 sicians. In the Gentoo language it is called Bamboo Milk ; in 

 the Malabar, Salt of Bamboo; and in the Warriar, Bamboo Cam- 

 phor. It is found in the joints of the female bamboo, sometimes 

 in a fluid state like milk, sometimes with the consistence of honey; 



but 



