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Merchant, Glasgow; J. Alfred Wantljn, Esq., M.R.C.S.L., F.R.S.E., 
&c., Demonstrator of Chemistrj in the University of Edinburgh. Cap- 
tain F. W. L. Thomas, R.N., was elected a non-resident member. 
It was moved by George Logan, Esq., that on account of 
the deeply lamented death of H.E.H. the Prince Consort, 
the Society do adjourn to the fourth Wednesday of January. 
The motion was unanimously agreed to ; Alexander 
Bryson, Esq., making the following remarks from the 
chair : — 
-Gentlemen, — I cannot close the meeting of the Society 
without giving expression to feelings which I know animate 
the breast of every Briton. Never in my own remembrance 
has such a sensation been experienced as that which thrilled 
through the kingdom yesterday, when the people learned 
that their beloved Queen was a widow. The late Prince 
Consort was among the few of the great and distinguished 
who honoured himself by honouring our jjursuits by his 
appreciation and knowledge of them. We must ever feel 
how much our country has been indebted to Prince Albert 
for many institutions cognate with our own, and it is to me 
a satisfaction, though a melancholy one, that he was enabled 
to do so much good work. 
Mr William Turner, M.B., begged that before the Society 
adjourned, he might be allowed to exhibit some moist pre- 
parations he had brought in illustration of his paper, as they 
could not be preserved and again exhibited. Mr Turner s 
request was agreed to, and the following communication was 
laid on the table : — 
I. Upon a Non-striped Muscle connected tvith the Orbital Periosteum of 
Man and Mammals ; and Notes on the Musculus Kerato-cricoideus. 
By William Turner, M.B. (London), F.R.S.E., Senior Demonstrator 
of Anatomy, University of Edinburgh. 
Whilst engaged in making a dissection, in the human 
subject, during the winter session of last year, of the 
superior maxillary, or second division of the fifth cranial 
nerve, my attention was attracted to a pale-reddish, soft 
mass, filling up the narrow chink of the spheno-maxil- 
lary fissure, and extending from the sphenoidal fissure in 
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