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solely to the Society's scientific work. The Journal 

 was more widely distributed, and it was sent in ex- 

 change to some of the leading scientific societies. 

 Seven volumes were published ; the principal papers 

 in vol. i. are McClintock's " Reminiscences of Arctic 

 Ice-Travel in search of Sir John Franklin," with 

 illustrations of the fossils found in the course of the 

 expedition ; Edmund Davy, on a simple electro- 

 chemical method of detecting arsenic ; Mr. Carte, on 

 the climate and zoology of the Crimea ; Dr. J. R. 

 Kinahan on the habits and distribution of marine 

 Crustacea on the eastern shores of Port Philip, Australia, 

 with descriptions of undescribed species and genera. 

 The same author contributed a paper on Crustacea 

 collected in Peru, the high seas, and South Australia, 

 and described some new species. The Rev. Dr. Samuel 

 Haughton contributed an important paper on the tides 

 and tidal currents of the Irish Sea and English 

 Channel, considered with reference to the safe naviga- 

 tion of those seas by outward and homeward bound 

 ships. The volume also includes an appreciative 

 memoir of Edmund Davy, who succeeded Mr. Higgins 

 as professor of chemistry to the Royal Dublin Society 

 in 1826, and held that office until his death in 1857. 

 There is also a memoir of Mr. Isaac Weld, a vice- 

 president of the Society, by Mr. L. E. Foot. Mr. 

 Weld for many years exercised a controlling influence 

 over the Society's work, and the writer claims that it 

 was Mr. Weld who suggested the Society's triennial 

 exhibitions of manufactures which culminated in the 

 great International Exhibition of 1853. 



Vol. ii. contains a paper by Mr. Patrick Buchan 

 on the iron ores of the Connaught coalfield, and notes 

 by the Rev. Professor Haughton on a mineralogical 

 excursion from Cairo into Arabia Petraea. The same 



