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Proceedings of Societies. 
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X. — Proceedings of Societies. 
1. — Medical and Physical Society. 
Saturday , 8 tk January. 
Messrs. Stuart, Green, and Minto, were elected Members of the Society. The 
Meeting then proceeded to the election of Officers, when the nominations were found 
as follows : 
H. H. Wilson, Esq. President, (permanent.) 
John Tytler, Esq. Vice-President. 
W. Twining, Esq. Secretary and Treasurer. 
C. C. Egerton, Esq. Assistant ditto ditto. 
Committee of Management — John Grant, Esq. ; Dr. George Waddell ; H. Mercer, 
Esq. and Dr. Stewart. 
Committee of Papers — J. Grant, Esq. ; Dr. Waddell ; H. Mercer, Esq. ; Dr. 
Stewart ; A. Wood, Esq. and E. W. W. Raleigh, Esq. 
The President stated to the Society, that a portrait of their Secretary, Dr. J. 
Adam, had been painted, and a monument erected to his memory, according to the 
vote of the Society to that effect. 
The following communications were then submitted. A letter from the Secretary 
to the Medical Board, with a copy of Mr. Searle’s work on Cholera, presented to 
the Society, by the Board. A treatise on Mania a Potu, presented by the Autlwr, 
Dr. Carter. A letter from Dr. Hays, of Philadelphia, acknowledging the rece.pt 
of the 1st and 2d Volumes of the Society’s Transactions, and presenting the ICth 
and 11th Nos. of the American Journal of the Medical Sciences, published sitce 
May, 1829, and in continuation of the series previously received, &c. A letter from 
Baboo Ram Comul Sen, (a Member of the Society,) accepting the office of Col- 
lector, 
A letter was read from Dr. Royle, proposing, that the Society should undertake 
to collect a Cabinet of Indian Materia Medica, to contain the various articles of 
medicine employed by the Natives of India, with specimens of the plants from which 
the vegetable remedies are prepared — the mode of preparation — the names and syna- 
nimes of the articles — the parts of the country whence obtained — statement of the 
medical properties ascribed to them by the Natives, and any direct evidence which 
medical men can procure regarding the actual efficacy of the several medicines, and 
the result of their own experience. Mr. Royle offers above one hundred specimens 
of medicines in use in the Upper Provinces. It was resolved, that Mr. Royle’s offer 
be accepted, and that in adopting his suggestion, Members of the Society, in every 
part of the country, be invited to afford their assistance towards completing the 
proposed Cabinet, &c. 
Morbid preparations were placed on the table, from Dr. R. Tytler, and Dr. Mac- 
kinnon. 
A letter was read from Mr. Lowther, with an account of a fish bone arrested in 
the oesophagus of a young man, and extracted by an incision through the integu- 
ments, at the side of the neck, where the point of the bone had protruded. 
Also, a communication from Mr. Boswell, of Pinang, presented by the Medical 
Board, on the utility of blisters of Lunar Caustic in pulmonary Consumption, and 
various other diseases. 
A case of Hydrophobia, by Mr. Rogers, Assistant Surgeon, 1st Regiment Native 
Infantry, presented by the Medical Board. A case of Abscess of the Liver, pre- 
sented by the Medical Board. 
A paper by Mr. Twining, was then read and discussed by the meeting. 
2. — Asiatic Society. 
Class of Natural History and Physics. 
Saturday, 15 th January , 1831. 
Sir Edward Ryan, President, in the Chair : 
I. A letter was read from Mr. G. Swinton, accompanying a parcel of Mineral 
Specimens from Ava, received through Major Burney, the Resident at the Burmese 
Court, from Mr. C. Lane. 
The minerals forwarded, comprised the following metallic ores : 1. Iron — mag- 
netic, glance, pyrites, red and grey haematite : 2. Lead, the crystallized carbonate : 
