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Proceedings. [no. 6, new series, 



Vol. 42. Diameter of trees. Names of trees and plants, also the 

 use of plant. Collection of Plants. 



Vol. 43. Letters and reports to His Majesty King Frederick 

 William IV. and to the Honorable Court of Directors of the East 

 India Company, and to Alexander Von Humboldt. 



These are merely the Headings of the different Volumes. The 

 detailed Catalogue is in the Library of the Society. 



The Scientific observations have been made in all parts of the 

 British possessions in the East and Highlands of Asia, and with 

 every variety of instrument. 



Among other matters of interest, Mr. Herman Schlagentwaite 

 stated that he had prepared a valuable Ethnographic Series of Casts 

 of Heads of the various Indian races amounting to about 25, which 

 had been executed in copper by the Galvano-plastic process with 

 great success, and a specimen of which he had forwarded by the 

 Overland Mail, but it has not yet been received. 



He adds that no tidings have been received of their brother Adol- 

 phe since May last, which was a source of great anxiety to them. 



Mr. Robert Schlagentwaite 's Orthographical Remarks related 

 chiefly to the use of the proper equivalents for the letter * * * 

 which English writers usually represent by j & ch, but which the 

 Germans prefer expressing by dz & ts. This subject was referred 

 for report to the Sub Committee of Papers. 



Lieut. H. P. Hawkes forwarded the first of a series of Papers 

 which he proposes submitting to' the Society, entitled " Notes on 

 various subjects." 



Those contained in the present communication are : 



1. On the best material for lining entomological cases. 



2. On an artificial method of preserving duplicate specimens of 

 Lepidopterous insects in a portable form. 



These were referred to the Sub- Committee of Papers. 



