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somewhat meagre. ‘The arrangements for sectional papers and oral 
communications were, we understand, thrown into some confusion 
latterly ; and a forthcoming report by Mr. Broughton, on some re- 
cent phy siological investigations, could not obtain a hearing before the 
morning of the last day, when the greater proportion of the members 
devoted to such subjects had left Oxford. 
‘The popular exhibitions of the two great leaders in covloiegsaiiyel 
fessors Buckland and Sedgewick—absorbed the almost undivided 
attention of the meeting, whenever these two talented geologists lec- 
tured ; so that other sectional communications were necessarily post- 
potted. _ such occasions.— London Medical Gazette, en ee 
3. Leipsic Fair, Dinesh; 1831.—The Leipsie catalogue of vate 
for the Michaelmas or autumnal fair, in 1831, announces two thou- 
sand seven hundred and thirty eight iew works. At the Easter or 
spring fair for the same year, the German press had put into circu- 
lation two thousand nine hundred and twenty works. The number; 
therefore, of new publications in Germany for the year 1831, is five 
thousand six hundred and fifty eight, which is two hundred and six: 
ty eight less than for the year 1830. 
Among the two thousand seven hundred and thirty eight wena 
the last fair, we find ninety written in foreign modern languages, 
seventy nine romances, twenty seven theatrical pieces, one hundred 
and twenty five on the cholera morbus, and very nearly as many 
_upon the politics of the day. The affairs of the several states of the 
German confederation have given rise to some pamphlets, but the 
greater part of these are devoted to the cause of Poland. ‘The live- 
ly interest felt in Germany for this unfortunate people is not less man- 
ifested in their romances, many of ‘which have their ——— and _— 
ines taken from among the defenders of Poland. 
In general, we remark in this catalogue the absence of erential 
and of important works for the advancement of the sciences. Yet 
the department of history has not furnished fewer valuable publica- 
tions than in former years ; and in this branch Germany has pee 
ed its usual preeminence. In proof of this, we mention the 
siete : the sixth and last volume of the History of bios 
w during the middle ages, by Savigny ; the History of t 
donians, by Flathe ; “dditions 4 the “History of the Teutonic Order 
in Prussia, by Schubei's “an Essay upon the Commerce of the - 
dle Ages, by Wilda ; the Cities of Suabia during the Middle Ages: 
