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system. — Dr. Grant took a simultaneous view of the nervous system of 

 animals, proceeding from the lowest to the highest order ; and of the 

 nervous system of man, from the earliest stage of his temporal exist- 

 ence to his full development. He showed that the former presented 

 so many different stages of development, through all of which the 

 human system was carried during its development, and that in any 

 inferior animal the nervous system might be considered as a develop- 

 ment of one common plan, up to a certain degree, accordant with the 

 place of that animal in the scale of creation. 



February 28. — Mr. Brande on the present state of gas manufacture 

 in the metropolis. — The enormous extent to which this chemical ma- 

 nufacture had in a few short years arisen, was stated and illustrated 

 by numerous statements of the quantities of gas made and coals used, 

 and its increasing importance shown by an account of new manufac- 

 tures almost daily rising out of it, and dependent on it for their supply 

 of material. 



March 7. — Mr. Faraday on electro-chemical decomposition. — This 

 was an experimental illustration of the fifth series of Mr. Faraday's 

 researches, the subject of which has already been noticed in our re- 

 ports of the proceedings of the Royal Society. 



March 14. — Mr. R.Phillips on the conditions and effects of chemi- 

 cal affinity. 



March 2 1 . — Mr. Hellver. A day at Pompeii. — This was an account 

 of the lecturer's personal observations at Pompeii during the past year, 

 in which he compared the accounts of others with the actual state of 

 the place, and brought before the Members many interesting points 

 on the Fine Arts, manufactures and habits of the inhabitants of that 

 town, and of the nation of which they formed a part, as it existed at 

 the time of the destruction of Pompeii. 



On the same evening Mr. Faraday called the attention of the Mem- 

 bers to a Special General Meeting, to be held on the Monday follow- 

 ing, for the purpose of receiving certain munificent gifts made by Mr. 

 John Fuller to the Institution. He formerly gave 1000/. to the funds. 

 He then invested 3333/. in the three per cents., to found a Chair 

 of Chemistry, with a salary of 100/. per annum ; of which Chair Mr. 

 Faraday is Professor. He has now invested another 3333/. in the same 

 manner, to establish a Chair of Physiology ; to which Dr. Roget has 

 been appointed. And he has also invested 3000/. three per cents., in 

 the hands of trustees, as a permanent fund, which is to amount, by 

 accumulated interest, additions, or otherwise, to 10,000/, and then be 

 available for the service of the Institution. He has, therefore, devoted 

 10,000/. to the purpose of advancing science in this Institution alone. 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Nov. 12, 1833. — A letter was read, addressed to the Secretary by 

 M. Julien Desjardins, Corr. Memb. Z. S., and dated Mauritius, 

 June 20, 1833. It was accompanied by an " Extrait du Troisieme 

 Rapport sur les Travaux de la Societe d'Histoire Naturelle de l'lle 

 Maurice," of which Society M. J. Desjardins is the Secretary. Thit 



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