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posed that a selection of them should be engraved for publication 

 in the Journal, with a view of showing how large and interesting a 

 field of discovery exists for persons provided with a Microscope, 

 during long voyages. He also proposed in connection with the 

 same subject, that an excellent Memoir on Animalculus and other 

 organized bodies, which give a colour to the Sea, by Camille Da- 

 reste, should be re- published among the selections. It appeared 

 originally in the Anneles des Sciences Naturelles, and has been 

 translated for the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal. 



The subject was referred to the Committee of Papers. 



The Committee have to acknowledge the receipt of the follow- 

 ing Papers. 



The Study of Living Languages, by Colonel A. Cotton. 



Suggestions for Weights and Measures for India, by W. H. 

 Bayley, Esq. 



A plan for taking Stereoscopic Portraits with a common Ca- 

 mera, by Lieut. Paxton,//-owi Dr. Scott. 



The Oxymel Process in Photography, by J. Tawse, Esq. 



