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instruments, electrical and other experiments, and telegraphic printing ; the 
“ east drawing-room” to books, autographs, and manuscripts ; the most con- 
spicuous of the last-named being one of Eoscoe’s, of the Life of Leo X. The 
remaining saloons were devoted to the arts, to music, and painting ; and the 
Council-chamber, &c., to refreshments. 
The music consisted chiefly of part-songs, beautifully executed by the Ger- 
man “ Lieder Tafel.” The paintings in oil and water-colours, which were 
the property of the merchants and gentry in and around Liverpool, were 
collected and well hung under the superintendence of Arnold Baruchson, Esq., 
a patron of art in the town. 
The Eev. President delivered a short address in one of the saloons during 
the evening, in which he sketched the history of the Society ; and his place 
was then occupied by the only surviving founder present, the venerable and 
much-esteemed William Eatlibone, the friend of Eoscoe, as well as of all that 
is good and useful in Liverpool. He addressed those around him as his 
“ cliildren,” and called up old associations in the minds of many who had 
lived with him when science was a heresy. After these addresses the concert 
followed, and brought the proceedings of the evening to a close. 
Such meetings as this, and others, of which we hope to be able to record a 
goodly and increasing number in each new issue, are calculated to place science 
in its true light, not as a dry study, hemmed in by obstacles insurmountable 
by the populace, but as one of the chief occupations that render life useful 
and agreeable. 
We congratulate the Liverpool Society on the success of its fiftieth anni- 
versary, and hope that it may live to celebrate, and that these pages may 
record, the hundredth year of its existence. 
TEAN SLATION S AND CONTINENTAL NOVELTIES. 
The Kangaroo and her Young Offspring. — Die Natur, a weekly popular 
magazine of science, edited .by Dr. 0. Ule and Dr. K. Muller, and pub- 
lished in Halle, contains a series of articles by the first-named writer on 
“ Marsupials Eecent, and Fossil from one of which we extract the following 
wonderful anecdote coimected with the natural history of the Kangaroo : — 
“Weinland observed an interesting circumstance in connection with the 
development of these creatures in the new zoological garden, Frankfort. In 
the winter of 1860, a female kangaroo had given birth to a young one, which 
for the first time protruded its naked head, measuring two inches in length, 
from the maternal pouch on the 22nd of February. Towards the commence- 
ment of May, it ventured forth for a little while upon its own feet, and in 
the course of the summer it continued to disport upon the grassy lawn, and 
to grow in stateliness and beauty, under the guardianship of its parents. 
u Although it had, in the month of September, attained to half the size of 
its parents, it was still frequently seen to seek refuge in its mother’s pouch. 
With long leaps it would, at such times, come bounding towards her, under 
the apprehension of some imaginary danger, and without an instant 
arresting its progress on approaching her, it would plunge head foremost into 
the half-opened pouch of the mother, who was quietly seated upon her hind 
