298 Meeting at Dresden, of the Professors of 



manner. On the following year the friends assembled at Halle, 

 in the hall of the University; at that meeting the fertile Doe- 

 bereiner of Jena announced his remarkable investigations re- 

 specting platina. The third meeting was held in the lovely 

 vine-clad town of Wurzburg, where the worthy Outrepont 

 gave such active assistance ; and the fourth was held, in 1825, 

 at Frankfort-on-the-Maine, where the " Collections" of the 

 Sinkenberg Institute, magnificently enriched by the patriotic 

 liuppel, afforded a rich treat to the very numerous assem- 

 bly, and were luminously and eloquently explained by Pro- 

 fessor Eretschmer, who also filled the office of Secretary. 



At this meeting it was determined that the next should be 

 at Dresden. The director of the Medico-chirurgical Aca- 

 demy in that city, Seiler, was chosen to be the President, and 

 Professor Carus, the Secretary. The picturesque environs of 

 Dresden, the fine harvest-season, the museums and works of 

 art, all contributed to heighten the pleasures of the occasion, 

 and the assembly was attended by upwards of fifty out-resident 

 Professors, Physicians, and men of science, from near and 

 distant parts ; and all parted at the conclusion with the most 

 cordial congratulations till the next year. 



The members of the two long-established Royal Societies 

 of Medicine, and those of the Royal Wernerian Societies, 

 forming a body of fifty residents at Dresden, undertook to give 

 a hospitable reception to the whole. 



Counsellor Seiler, who, with his colleague Carus, most 

 efficiently conducted all the arrangements, had previously 

 procured the requisite subscriptions, and provided what seemed 

 necessary for the occasion. As the meeting was bound to be 

 held with open doors and to afford admission to the curious, 

 none of the academic halls seemed sufficiently spacious for the 

 friends actually present and the additional influx of visitors which 

 was expected ; the superintendent, Von Watzdorf, graciously 

 offered the great hall of the States-Assembly in the domestic 

 palace, where, besides the triple row of benches ranged around 

 a round table of considerable size, there was still room for some 

 hundreds of spectators ; and the number even of these on the 

 six days when the praelections and communications lasted from 

 nine in the morning till one, amounted to 400. Along all the 

 walls and in the recesses of the windows stood large pots of 

 exotic plants and shrubs brought from the royal botanic gar- 

 dens, forming by tasteful arrangement a lovely temple of Na- 

 ture. An adjoining room was open for particular demonstra- 

 tions and exhibitions, which were to be seen at the conclu- 

 sion of the sitting, — the requisite limitation. The full-length 

 portrait of the king which decorates the hall seemed to glance 



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