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Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh, 



Prize question. ./\LL members of the Society are invited to write an Ex~ 

 perimental Essay on the following subject. 



** To determine by experiment what substances are ex- 

 '* haled by the skin; and the changes, if any, which they 

 ** produce on the surrounding air". 



The dissertations are to be written in English, Latin, or 

 French, and are to be delivered to the secretary on or be~ 

 fore the 1st of Efecember, 1813, (being the year succeeding 

 that in which the subject is proposed). The abjudication 

 will take place in the last week of February following. 



To each dissertation shall be prefixed a motto, and this 

 motto is to be written on the outside of a sealed packet con- 

 taining the name and address of the author. No dissertation 

 will be received with the author's name affixed, and all dis- 

 sertations, except the successful one, will be- returned, it' 

 desired, with the sealed packet unopened. 



Geological Society, April 3, 1812. 



Geology of the X notice relative to the geology of the coast of Labrador 

 coast of Labra- by tbe Rey |j^ St g; n i iaue ,. WaS rea <}. The only accounts, 



which have hitherto been published, concerning this part of 

 the British dominions are the merapirs of Mr. (afterward sir 

 Roger) Curtis, inserted in the Philosophical Transactions, 

 and Mr. Cartwright's .Journal. 

 Moravian mis- The Moravian missionaries in 1772 established iu this 

 wens there. country their first settlement, called Main, in lat. 56? 38'; 

 and subsequently Okkak, in lat. 58° 43', and Hopedale, in 

 55° 36'. In the course of last year they doubled cape Chud- 

 leigh,in lat. 60°20', aud descended on the western side of the 

 (same promontory as far as lat. 58° 36'. The leisure qf the 

 missionaries, when opportunities occur, is employed in col- 

 lecting materials for a Natural History of the country, they 

 have kept tables of the thermometrical and barometrical 

 variations, have procured specimens of most of the native 



