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the continent; among whom are seproep Messrs. Agassiz, CErsted, 
Rerihduateniet Svanberg, H. $y Beharibsin Matteucci, Koninck, 
von Middendorf, and Wartmann. ~The e proceedings of the Association 
Cambridge meeting, and the rest from dividends on stock, sale of the 
volumes of reports, and other items. Among the payments, we ob- 
serve that 3,300 dollars were given on account ‘of grants to aid in scien- 
tific researches, in various departments, 2,500 dollars to an assistant 
secretary, accountant, &c. for 18 months; and 1,000 dollars, for the 
expenses of the meeting at ip ntenetears in connection with sundry 
disbursements for advertisin 
~The annual address, déliveted by Sir R. I. Murchison, the President 
elect, presents a lucid review of the investigations in science promoted 
the Association, and spirited sketches of the recent labors of some of 
the th See men present at the meeting. Of Agassiz, he says: 
“ Switzerland has again.given to us that great master in paleeontology, 
who wae put arms into the hands of British geologists, with which they 
have conquered vast regions, and who, now on his road to new glories 
in America, brings to us his report on the fossil fishes of the basin of 
London, which will, he assures me, exceed in size all that he : ons 
written on ichthyolites.” Of Pr ue von Middendorf: ** Amon 
sources of just pride and gratification, no one has afforded me — 
oes than to welcome hither the undaunted Siberian explorer, Prof. 
von Middendorf. Deeply impressed as ]|.am with the estimation in 
which science is held by the sti ruler of the empire of Russia, 
I cannot but hope that the presence of this traveler, so singularly dis- 
tinguished for his enterprising saipica may meet with a friend in every 
Englishman who is. acquainted with the arduous nature of his travels. 
To traverse Siberia from south to north and from west to east—to reac 
by land neh extreme northern headland of 'Taimyr—to teach us, for the 
first time, that even to the latitude 72° north, trees with stems extend 
hemmclent’ in that meridian—that crops of rye, more abundant than in 
his native Livonia, grow beyond Yakutsk, on the surface of that frozen 
subsoil, the intensity and measure of c oldii in which, he has determi 
by thermometric experiments—to explain, through their language and 
physical form, the origin of tribes now far removed from their parent 
stock—to explore the far eastern regions of the Sea of Ohkotsk and of 
the Shantar Isles—to define the remotest northeastern boundary be- 
tween China and Russia—and, finally, to enrich St. Petersburgh with 
the natural productions, both fossil and recent, of all these wild and 
untrodden lands, are the ‘exploits for which the ‘Royal Geographical 
iety of London has, at its last meeting, conferred its Gold Victoria 
Medal on this most successful explorer. Prof. v. Middendorf now visits 
us to converse with our naturalists most able to assist him, and to in-_ 
Spect our museums, in which, by comparison, he can best determine 
eee ‘of specific characters before he completes the description of 
is accumulations ; and I trust that during his stay in Englan nd 
