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XXXIII. Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles. 



ON mr. kerr's claims, and on the nature op the 



EARTHS. 



W e have received a second communication with the sig- 

 nature O., and bearing the above title. Had it come with 

 the author's name, we should have given it insertion. But 

 we cannot permit, in our pages, on anonymous authority, 

 a repetition of such statements, after they have been once 

 answered. An honourable assailant (and we mean not to in- 

 sinuate that O. will show himself otherwise) can have no ob- 

 jection to avow himself. Tf O. hesitate to give his own name, 

 he cannot be surprised that we should hesitate to lend ours. 



For the same reason we must refuse insertion to a com- 

 munication signed S. To this communication we have also 

 to object, that several of the alleged facts are incorrect, and 

 consequently the conclusions unfounded. 



Another correspondent, A . C, has sent us an article en- 

 titled " On some points of philosophical criticism." It con- 

 tains remarks which might be fair, were he replying to 

 claims set up ly Mr. Kerr himself, but which, as circum- 

 stances stand at the present moment, might savour of illi- 

 berality towards that gentleman. Impartiality therefore de- 

 mands that we refuse this anonymous communication a place 

 in our Magazine. 



A Comet was too hastily reported in our last to be visible 

 in our hemisphere. The supposed comet proves to be the 

 nebulae in Andromeda, 



lectures. 



Royal Institution. — The following arrangement is made 

 for the Lectures of the ensuing Season ; they will commence 

 on Saturday the 17th of December, with an Introductory 

 Lecture by Mr. Davy. 



Experimental Chemistry, and Electro-Chemical Science, 

 by Humphry Davy, Esq., Sec. R.S. 



Botany, by James Edward Smith, M D. F.R.S. P.L.S. 



Astronomy, by John Pond, Esq., F.R.S. 



Grecian History and Historians, by the Rev. William 

 Crowe, Public Orator at the University of Oxford. 



Perspective, by Mr. John George Wood. 



Music, by Mr. Samuel Wesley. 



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