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external form, or because their skeleton hardens a little more slowly 
than the others. Such are the centrisques, the daudroyes, the 
cyclopteres, the lepadogasteres, &ce. } 
M. Cuvier has founded on these views, and on other similar onés, 
‘the peculiar method according to which the fishes will be arranged 
in the work which he is preparing on comparative anatomy. 
'’ The same naturalist has presented to the Class researches on a 
‘pretty considerable number of fishes which he has obseryed in three 
journeys made at three different times on the coast of. the Mediter- 
Yanean. Some of them.are new; some of them had been wrong 
placed, or wrong named, by authors. Several have offered inte- 
resting observations relative to their structure, or occasioned the 
establishment of new genera, or the subdivision of old genera. 
These details cannot enter into a report of this kind; but naturalists 
will find them in the’ first volame of the Memoirs of the Museum 
of Natural History, of which a part has already appeared. 
TORE 
ArticLte XIII. 
SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE; AND NOTICES OF SURJECTS 
CONNECTED WITH SCIENCE, 
J. Lectures. bs 
Medical Theatre, St.. Bartholomew’s Hospital.—The following 
Courses of Lectures will be delivered at this theatre during the 
ensuing winter :—On the Theory and Practice of Physic ; by Dr. 
Hue.—On Anatomy and Physiology ; by Mr. Abernethy.—QOn the 
Theory and Practice of Surgery; by Mr. Abernethy.—Qn Che- 
mistry; by Dr. Hue.—On Midwifery; by Dr. Gooch.—Anatomical 
Demonstrations; by Mr. Stanley. The Anatomical Lectures will 
commence on Monday, Oct. 2, at two o'clock. 
Medical School. of St. Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals.—The 
. Autumnal Courses of Lectures at these adjoining Hospitals. will 
commence the beginning of October, viz.: 
At St. Thomas’s.—Anatomy and the Operations of Surgery ; by 
Mr. Astley Cooper and Mr. Henry Cline.—Principles and Practice 
of Surgery; by Mr. Astley Cooper. 
At Guy’s.— Practice of Medicine; by Dr. Babington and Dr, 
ieee Werslatry 5 by Dr. Babington, Dr. Marcet, and Mr. 
Allen.—Experimental Philosophy; by Mr. Allen.—Theory of Me- 
dieine, and Materia Medica; by Dr. Curry and Dr, Cholmeley — 
Midwifery, and Diseases of Women and Children; by Dr. Haigh- 
ton.—Physiology, or Laws of the Animal Economy; by Dr. 
Haighton.—Structure and Diseases of the Teeth ; by Mr. Fox. 
N. B. ‘These several lectures are so arranged, that no two of them 
