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LINNEAN SOCIETY. 



Dec. 5. — A. B. Lambert, Esq. in the Chair. Some further 

 particulars respecting the new genus Raffieiia, lately received 

 from Sumatra, were laid before the Society- Several fresh spe- 

 cimens of this extraordinary plant, the flower of wi)ich is of gi- 

 gantic dimensions, have been collected by Sir T. S. Raffles, after 

 whom, as having been discovered in one of his progresses through 

 the island, it is named. 



Dec. 19. Part of a descriptive Catalogue, by Sir T. S. Raffles, 

 was read, of a Zoological Collection made for the East India 

 Company in Sumatra mid its vicinity, by his direction, vvith many 

 interesting notices illustrative of the naturjil history of those 

 countries. The animals described in the part of the paper which 

 has been read are the following: Simla Sutyrus, called in Su- 

 matra Oran Pandak, apparently the same with the Orang Utan 

 of Borneo : Siynia Siainu/ig, a new species from Bencoolen : 

 Simia Lar, called Oongka Etam, of the sensibility of which the 

 Author relates a remarkable instance : one in his possession 

 having, in consequence of being turned out of the house for some 

 offence, twice hung itself on a tree ; the first time it was disco- 

 vered and cut down, but succeeded in its second attempt in de- 

 stroying itself: another Si7nia, called Bruh by the natives, is 

 employed near Bencoolen to gather cocoa-nuts ; the ripest of 

 which he selects, and pulls no more than he is ordered. Other 

 species are named Chingkau, Slmpai, Kra, and Lotong. Le- 

 mur tardigradus, Galei.pilhecus volans, Fesperfilio Vampyrus, 

 Manis pentadaclyla, and Canis famiiiaris, a variety resem- 

 bling the Australasian, which abound in the forests, and are said 

 to hunt in packs. 



CAMBRIDGK PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



On the 27th of November, several new members were elected 

 Fellows of the Society. Afterwards a paper was read by the Pro- 

 fessor of Mineralogy, Dr. E. D. Clarke, upon a remarkable for- 

 mation of Native Natron in Devonsiiire. The Professor also 

 communicated to the Society a discovery which he had made re- 

 specting the supposed Alabaster Soros brought by Mr. Belzoni 

 from Upper Egypt; and which he had found to consist of one 

 integral mass of' /^>Yo^'o7n7£'. The Rev. Mr. Cecil, of Magdalen 

 College, also read a very important paper on the Application of 

 Hydrogen Gas to produce moving Force in Machinery; giving 

 at the same time a description of an Engine for that purpose, 

 which was exhibited to the Society. 



ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, ARTS, AND BELLES LETfRES OF CAEN. 



A new discovery in the Fine Arts was communicated to this 



Academy 



