LINKEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. XXXVll 



sisn and wars, resulted in tlie breaking up of the meetings of the 

 Academy, the seizure of their funds, and the destruction of the 

 greater part of their property. It Avas not till after a lapse of 

 more than twenty years that the Society was, on the reestahlishment 

 of peace, reconstituted at Eelangen, under the presidency of Von 

 AVendt ; and in 1818 anew volume of the Transactions appeared in 

 a larger quarto form, with improved typography and paper, forming 

 the ninth volume of the Nova Acta Physico-Medica Academise 

 Cassarese Leopoldino-Carolinse JSTaturse Curiosorum, or the first 

 with a German title-page of Yerhandlungen der liaiserlichen 

 Leopoldinisch-Carolinischen Akademie der Naturforscher, The 

 Grerman language was now admitted, and in most papers, with the 

 exception of technical characters, generally replaced the Latin ; 

 and the volume, although continuously paged, is divided into four 

 sections, Botany, Zoology, Greneral Physics, and Medicine, the 

 first occupying more than one-half. 



After Yon "Wendt's death, the Academy passed under the presi- 

 dency of Nees von Esenbect, then resident at Bonn, and consider- 

 able discussion and jealousies arose as to its moving from the Ba-' 

 varian to the Prussian dominions, the old Empire, under which its 

 regulations had been originally formed, having disappeared. It is 

 said that amongst the arguments which prevailed in favour of its 

 moveability were those of Oken, the same which suggested to him 

 his plan for the German Association for an annual gathering, in 

 difi'erent towns, of Naturalists and Medical Men, Naturforscher 

 und Aertzte, which has been the origin of all the peripatetic asso- 

 ciations now so successful in this and other countries*. The 

 Academy remained many years at Bonn, then passed with its pre- 

 sident to Beeslau, from whence it moved to Jena under Kieser, 

 and is now at Dresden under Carus. Since the removal from 

 Erlangen, twenty- two vokimes of Transactions have been published, 

 not divided into sections, but often accompanied by supplements as 

 large as the volumes, or by papers appended to the prefaces, with 

 a variety of paging, creating some confusion in references, besides 

 that the volumes themselves were for many years differently 

 numbered in the German title, which supposed the series to com- 

 mence with the Erlangen volume, and in the Latin one, which in- 

 cluded the eight old ones. "With the twenty-fifth, however, this 

 discordant numbering ceased, the German title skipping from the 



* The merit of having originated this plan is also claimed by the Societe 

 Helvetique des Sciences Naturelles, but perhaps under the same influence of 

 Oken. 



