58 Royal Society. 



Practical Observations on the Symptoms, Discrimination and 

 Treatment of some of the most common Diseases of the lovveT 

 Intestines and Anus. By John Howship, Member of the Royal 

 College of Surgeons, &c. 



A Work on Me^jical Jurisprudence. By Dr. J. Gordon Smith. 



IX. Proceedings of Learned Societies. 



ROYAL SOCIETY. 



J_/r. Wollaston has been appointed President ad interim of 

 the Society, until the election of a successor to the late lamented 

 Sir Joseph Banks. 



Sir Humphry Davy is expected to be the new President. The 

 Society could not make a choice more acceptable to the friends 

 of science. 



ASIATIC SOCIETY. 



On Saturday evening, the 13th Nov. 1819, a meeting of the 

 Asiatic Society was held at tlie Society's apartments in Chouring- 

 hcc, the Marquis of Hastings in the chair. 



The Committee elected for the present year consists of the 

 Bishop of Calcutta, Sir E. H. East, Colonel Hardwicke, W. B. 

 Bavley, Esq. Vice-presidents; Messrs. G. Swinton, H. Mackenzie, 

 J. Bentley, J. Atkinson, G. J. tfordon. Rev. J. Parson, Rev. Dr. 

 Carey, Dr. Wallich, and Capt. Roebuck, Committee of Papers: 

 Captain Lockett officiates as Secretary during the absence of 

 Mr. Wilson from the presidency. 



A letter was read from Dr. MacCulloch, of Baltimore, who 

 some time ago presented to the Society his ingenious Essay on 

 the Aborigines of America. He has been induced to make some 

 inquiries interesting in the history of the human family, and of 

 especial use in the particular investigation he has long been em- 

 ployed upon, which he has addressed to the members of the 

 Asiatic Society. He conceives it highly desirable to obtain further 

 descriptions, and, if possible, drawings of the Morias (Hindee, 

 Mure) and other monuQients to be found in various islands of the 

 Pacific Ocean, particularly those of the Friendly, Society, Sand- 

 wich, and Eastern Islands. Tlie island of Tinian, one of the 

 Marianne Islands (see La Perouse, and subsequent navigators), 

 contains some singular monuments which Dr. MacCulloch says 

 are entirely unknown to him, except froin the very brief descrip- 

 tion given of them by Lord Anson in his voyages*. 



* The Jesuit Gobien has published a particular history of the Ladrones, 

 or Marian Islands. See also the Supplement of De Brosses, ii. 492, for an 

 ample account of the Ladrones. 



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