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phia they passed into the hands of Dr. Mitchell. Dr. M. promised 

 to repeat some of the experiments of Dr. Brown, and to lay the re- 

 sults before the Society at a future meeting. 



Professor Park noticed a new publication, recently an- 

 nounced, from the Geographical Institute at Brussels, by 

 Messrs. Vandermaelen and Meisser, under the title of "Epis- 

 temonomie, ou Tables Generates dedications des Connais- 

 sances Humaines." 



He observed, that its professed object is to give analytical refer- 

 ences to all works, whether books, pamphlets, or articles in periodi- 

 cals, on each respective subject of human knowledge. He expressed 

 his regret, that in the specimen list which was forwarded to this So- 

 ciety, comprising the works on rail roads, those published in our own 

 country appeared to be so generally neglected. He also remarked, 

 that though the plan of the authors required a classification of human 

 knowledge, they had united in one of twelve divisions, the subjects of 

 mental and moral philosophy, religion, law and government, history, 

 biography, languages and antiquities, although these cover nearly 

 one-half of universal literature. Prof. Park announced a more equa- 

 ble and natural classification as about to be published, in which all 

 human knowledge is primarily divided into the following four pro- 

 vinces : — 1. Psychonomy, or the Laws of Mind, comprising the 

 Study of Languages, Metaphysics, Jurisprudence, and Religion : 

 2. Ethnology, or the Study of Nations and Society, comprising 

 Geography, History, Biography, and Poetry: 3. Physiconomy, or 

 the Laws of the Material World, comprising Mathematics, Physics, 

 Natural History, and Medicine : and 4. Technology, or the Study 

 of the Physical Arts, including those of Construction, with Agricul- 

 ture, Manufactures and Commerce, War, and the Fine Arts, particu- 

 larly Painting, Sculpture and Music, and other subordinate subjects. 



Mr. Lea, from the Publication Committee, presented a re- 

 port on the state of the Committee's accounts, upon the com- 

 pletion of the 7th volume, New Series, of the Society's Trans- 

 actions. 



The Committee mention, that the expense of publishing this volume 

 is about $1640, and that the balance remaining in their hands appli- 

 cable to the publication of Vol. VIII., a part of which is already in 

 press, is $166.38, besides about $600 which will probably be col- 

 lected from subscribers for the preceding volumes. 



