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1 'agriculture, du commerce, et des autres branches de l'activite' humaine, et surles 

 effets que ces institutions produisirent. II seroit aussi a d^sirer, que les traces 

 que les institutions des Arabes ont laiss^es dans les pays soumis a la domination des 

 Khalifes, fussent indiqu&s. Enfin la Classe demande, que non seulement en g£ne>al 

 les r^sultats des recherches, dont on vient de pr&riser le point de vue et I'^tendue, 

 soient justifiees par des citations exactes des sources, mais qu'en particulier dans 

 le cas ou les concurrents pourraient puiser dans des sources manuscrites, on ajoute 

 les testes des passages cit^s dans les langues originales avec l'exactitude la plus 

 scrupuleuse. 



" Les numioires envoye"s auconcours devront porter chacun une e'pigraphe ou de- 

 vise qui sera r£p£t£e dans un billet cachete" joint au memoire et contenant le nom 

 de l'auteur, et ne seront rectus que jusqu'au 31 Mars 1832, ils devront etre Merits 

 d'apres le choix des auteurs en Allemand, ou en Francais, ou en Anglais, ou en 

 Italien, ou en Latin. Le prix sera de 100 ducats, dont 1' adjudication se fera dans 

 la stance publique, anniversaire de Leibnitz, au inois de Juillet 1832." 



2. — Medical and Physical Society. 



Saturday, 7th January, 1832. — Messrs. Wood, Macnee, Christopher, and J. P, 

 Grant were elected Members of the Society. The Ballot was then taken for 

 Office Bearers for the year 1832, and the following Gentlemen were elected. 



J. Tytler, Esq. Vice-President. 



W. Twining, Esq. Secretary and Treasurer. 



C. C. Egerton, Esq. Assistant ditto and ditto. 



H. S. Mercer, Esq. ; John Grant, Esq. ; Geo. Waddell, M. D. ; Duncan Stew- 

 art, M. D. Members of the Committee of Management. 



H. S. Mercer, Esq. ; John Grant, Esq. ; Dr. Macqueen ; Geo. Waddell, M. D. ; 

 A. R. Jackson, M. D. ; Duncan Stewart, M. D. Committee of Papers. 



The following communications were then presented to the Society: 



1st. — Dr. Boswell's case of Pendulous Tumors of the nose, with a drawing, by 



which it seems the patient must have had a most grotesque appearance, as some 



of the tumors hung down as low as the chin : the disease occurred in a Malay 



man. The tumors were removed by ligature and the knife. — 2nd. An account 



of the varieties of East India Opium, by Dr. Smyttan, of the Bombay Service. — 



3rd. Dr. R. Tytler's account of a plant used by natives, to prevent the Scorpion 



from stinging them, with a relation of the trials made to provoke the Scorpion 



to sting the arm of a man while the plant was held near it. These trials were 



made in presence of other witnesses besides Dr. Tytler, and as far as can be judged 



of the experiments related, it appears, that the Scorpions then used were not easily 



provoked to sting those who handled them ; but there is no information as to 



whether any trials were made to irritate these reptiles when the plant, which is 



supposed to stupify or fascinate them, was not held near. A large blue Scorpion 



and a brown Scorpion were used in these experiments. A well finished drawing 



of the Scorpion, and of the root alluded to, accompanied this communication, and 



two specimens of the plant, in its dried state, which is said to be of the class 



Syngenesia ; but not being accompanied by the_flower, its Botanical characters 



cannot be exactly ascertained. A short notice of similar experiments, which were 



made in the presence of Brigadier O'Halloran, was also transmitted through the 



Medical Board, by Mr. PJayfair of Benares.— 4th. Mr. Boswell's abstract of 



