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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 physiological 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 geology — Pro- 

 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- 

 poned upon such occasions.— ionc?on Medical Gazette, June, 1832. 



3. Leipsic Fair, Autumn, 1831. — The Leipsic catalogue of books 

 for the Michaelmas or autumnal fair, in 1831, announces two thou- 

 sand seven hundred and thirty eight new 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 works of 

 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 heroes and hero- 

 ines taken from among the defenders of Poland. 



In general, we remark in this catalogue the absence of great names 

 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 preserv- 

 ed its usual preeminence. In proof of this, we mention the following 

 publications : the sixth and last volume of the History of the Roman 

 Law during the middle ages, by Savigny ; the History of the Mace- 

 donians, by Flathe ; additions to the History of the Teutonic Order 

 in Prussia, by Schubert ; an Essay upon the Commerce of the Mid- 

 dle Ages, by Wilda ; the ©ties of Suabia during the Middle Ages, 



