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discovered by Faraday many years ago, and the result 

 had now been obtained by more than one process. 



At the 73rd meeting (March 22nd) Admiral Smyth read 

 a letter just received from Captain R. P. King with the news 

 that some remains of Leichardt's party had been found. 1 



Dr. Miller mentioned a proposal to fire guns by using 

 RuhmkorfFs coil. The method was equally applicable 

 to various submarine purposes, and no difficulty was 

 apprehended. 



Dr. Bence Jones read a letter from Professor Du Bois- 

 Reymond stating that the cellulose, which Virchow asserted 

 to be present in the brain, had proved to be one of the 

 compounds of cholesterin, which presents the same reaction 

 as cellulose, " so this time we get off with the fright of being 

 closely allied to the cabbage/' 



Attention was drawn at the 74th meeting (April 30th) 

 to a statement made in the House of Commons that a paper 

 manufactory was to be established at Woolwich, because 

 the cartridge-cases, made by a manufacturer at Aberdeen, 

 in which pulp was used instead of paper to prevent the 

 overlapping of the latter (which interfered with the accuracy 

 of firing), could not be packed with sufficient closeness to 

 travel with safety and economy. 



At the 75th meeting (May loth) Sir John Richardson 

 mentioned that the hostility of the Loucheux Indians to 

 the Eskimo occupying the country about the mouths of the 

 Mackenzie River was diminishing in consequence, it was 

 believed, of the visits of the boats and ships of the expedition 

 to those shores. 



He also mentioned that six or seven years ago the shoulder- 

 bone and tooth of a mastodon had been found on a spit 

 by the Swan river, to the west of Lake Winnipeg, at a 

 height of 800 feet above the sea, in lat. 52. The spot had 

 recently again been visited. In lat. 62, to the north-west, 

 at an elevation of 1800 feet, a skeleton of a mammoth had 



1 F. W. L. Leichardt (born in Prussia in 1813) went to New South Wales 

 in 1841, crossed the Australian continent from east to north in 1844-5 ; 

 .started to cross it from east to west in 1848, and was never heard of again. 



