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arrows fly from no uncertain hand; he stands forth avowed, and di- 
rects his artillery at men and institutions of the greatest celebrity. 
If his satire is caustic, his irony cutting, his playfulness provoking ; 
they are not the less so on account of the constant appeals which he 
makes to facts, documents and living witnesses. 
We pronounce, for the present, no opinion on this remarkable vol- 
ume; it cannot however fall to the ground, mere brutum fulmen; it 
must tell, in some way or another; either by a recoil upon the aw- 
thor, if his case is not made out, or by a salutary operation upon the 
high institutions and individuals who are so powerfully assailed. 
The following tariff of admission to some of the principal societies, 
We quote simply as a statement of facts, remarking only, that how- 
ever proper or necessary it may be thus to raise a revenue at home, 
we should hardly have expected the same terms to be prescribed to 
foreigners, to whom membership is indeed a gratifying honor, but 
cannot afford much positive advantage.* * 
Fee of admission, 
Societies. including composition Appendéd 
for annual payments. __ letters. 
Dacccy, - <  -. S06 te -. * FS. 
of Edinburgh, 25 4 - - F.R.S.E. 
Academy of Dublin, 26 5 - . - M.R.1. A. 
Society of Literature, 35: 15°. = = F.R.S. Lit. 
quarian, “ 2 ~ 50 8 - ~ = AA Si 
Linnean, , : - 36 “ ~ F.1...5. 
Petia, Sl S848 - oy eee 
Astronomical, “ ~ a} a Soe - M. A.S. 
Oological,  - ‘ ss 96 5.- 3 ey et ALS 
Royal Institution, - - - 50 st. MBL 
wn go a 1G} = RR Aa 
Horticultural : . « 45 6° - - F.H.S. 
edico-Botanical, - - eal . F.M.B.S. 
_ ‘tt, Babbage remarks, that “those who are ambitious of scientific 
distinction may, according to their fancy, render their name a kind of 
Comet, carrying with it a tail of upwards of forty letters, at the aver- 
®8€ cost of £10 9s 94d per letter.” + 
* We do not know that the demand of money, from foreigners, is universal with 
English learned societies; we know however that some of them enforce this demand. 
Nor are we certain how far other European societies pursue this course, but we have 
hot known any instance of money being required out of Britain, where honor was 
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