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series of observations and 

 1 magnetism. 26C0/. have 

 ■ere employed in the complet 



irom the simpler compounds thus formed he is able to produce, by a succession 

 of steps, compounds more and more complex, until he bids fair to produce from 

 inorganic sources all the compounds of carbon and hydrogen which have 

 hitherto been only known as products of organic origin. Mr, Maxwell Simp- 

 son has also added to his former researches a step in the same direction, pro- 

 lynthetical process. But these important 



cing some organic prodm 



earches will be fully laid before you m tne lecture 

 ich Dr. Odling has kindly promised for Monday eve 

 3 continued his indefatigable researches on Poly-i 



Esmg proposes a mode 

 may, perhaps, become 

 ig point of view. Jn this process nitric acid is 

 of part that it does in the manufacture of sulphuric 

 acting together with oxyds of manganese as car- 

 mosphere to the hydrochloric acid. The methods 

 ;, (Prof. Graham) and 

 ive already produced 



Afler a short notice of some public 

 the lamented death of Prince Albert^i 

 and Henslow,who filh ' ' ' ' " ^' 

 so concluded an address which was generally thought t 



Tvishing Profes'sor Willis life, happiness, and pro; 

 his report on "Acoustics" (a work begun m IS: 

 thought that all would agree with him, that he i^ 

 could not desire a longer than he wished the Prof 



has been the case at the t 



wo last m 

 a in Secti 



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which bore on the Darwinii 



nedtobe 

 m theory, 



StoftlVvSif"""'' 



jrs, scientific and 





cientific, lay 



and clerical, 



male and 



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man 'and 



amon 



kev.— Sectio 





Science, 



had the usual sele 





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idedoverbv] 



Professor \V. 1 



H. Miller. 



and the Secretaries were 



Dr. Odlmi, Professor Roscoe, and W. H. Elphin- 



