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life, through the various progressions of the threefold organi- 

 zation. Many of the Professors and others present announced 

 themselves as the representatives of particular scientific unions ; 

 and it is to be hoped that at future meetings every society 

 will depute one of its members, and thus actively co-operate 

 with the general body. In this spirit, it was resolved by some 

 of the friends of medical science to collect the best pieces 

 from the minor journals of natural history, and to publish 

 them in one work. 



Thus also the reduction of Pliny's books of natural history 

 into a separate treatise by Bcettiger, might well suggest the 

 formation of a union for the promotion of the sciences of philo- 

 logy and natural history. As it is the fundamental principle 

 of this society, not to publish its own transactions, but to re- 

 gard itself as completely dissolved after each meeting, and to 

 avoid as much as possible the appearance of having perma- 

 nent offices, an account of its sittings will be given only in the 

 form of the protocol usually contained in Oken's Isis, a 

 chronicle which excludes politics altogether, and is entirely 

 dedicated to the sciences. 



The conclusion of the assembly on the 23rd of September 

 was truly impressive, when the two deputies Seiler and Carus 

 in a concise and energetic address rose cordially to express 

 the thanks and good wishes of the Dresden members, and 

 presented to every one present a facsimile lithographic list of 

 all who attended this meeting, and a copper-plate of the build- 

 ing of the Medical and Chirurgical Academy, as a memorial. 



How easy will it be henceforward, after the example we 

 have just recorded, to establish a second union of the patrons 

 and students of the Archaeology of Germany; on which branch 

 of research a first volume has already appeared in a form 

 truly worthy of a national work; such a union might be pro- 

 ductive of advantages important to general history. This ob- 

 ject, however, may be left to the care of the good genius of 

 Germany and the favouring regards of its rulers. 



XL VI. Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles. 



OVERLAND ARCTIC EXPEDITION. 



E have just read a letter from Dr. Richardson to Dr. 

 Graham, professor of botany, accompanying 27 packages 

 of seeds, many of them new species, and several suspected to 

 belong to new genera. We have much pleasure in publishing 

 the following extract : 



" Fort Franklin, Great Bear Lake, Nov. 1825. — We had 

 a quick passage from Liverpool to New York, and from thence 



we 



