306 The Curator Question. 



to his accepting or declining the office of Curator. On the 

 contrary, it is expressly stated in the resolution of the Society, 

 that the Report should be brought up at the next Meeting, 

 without any thing whatever to justify the Secretaries in ma- 

 king any other use of the Report in the mean time. The use 

 they did make of it — namely, that of calling upon us to ac- 

 knowledge its authority, or resign the place to which we had 

 been invited a few months before by the same parties, under 

 other circumstances — left us no alternative but to point out 

 the very objectionable course that had been pursued. 



Papers Received. 



1 . Plants characteristic of different nations, by Professor 

 Schouw ; translated from the original Danish, by Dr. 

 Cantor. 



2. Professor Schouw's Physical Sketch of Europe ; from 

 the Danish, by Dr. Cantor, Assistant Surgeon, doing 

 duty with H. M. 26th Foot. 



3. On the affinities of the Falconidce, being an attempt 

 at a natural arrangement of this family. Part 1, by W. 

 Jameson, Esq. Bengal Medical Service. 



