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Proceedings of So cieties. 
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XII . — Proceedings of Societies. 
1. Medical and Physical Society. 
Saturday, November' 7, 1829. 
Mr. Bacon was elected a Member. 
Mr. Newmarch withdrew his name, on the same plea as that urged by former se- 
ceding Members. 
A letter was read from Dr. Hays, Editor of the American Journal of Medical 
Science, Philadelphia, transmitting several numbers of that work for the Society’s 
Library. 
The following communications were submitted : 
A case of dislocation of the thigh-bone, by Mr. Spry. 
A history of a case of poison, producing excessive constitutional ii'ritation, by Mr. 
Raleigh. 
Remarks on the state of disease in the Meerut circle of superintendence, by Su- 
perintending Surgeon Langstalf, (communicated by the Medical Board.) 
Report of Disease in the Sirhind division, by Officiating Superintending Surgeon 
A. Murray. 
A paper on the occlusion of the Biliary Ducts, by Mr. Twining. 
Saturday, December' 5 , 1 829. 
Messrs. H. Taylor and F. Hartt were elected members. . 
An extract of a letter from Dr. A. Duncan, of Edinburgh, was read, relative to 
the medical powers of Madar, and several copies of a paper published by him on 
the subject, were presented for the use of the Society. _ 
The following communications, received since the preceding meeting, were then 
submitted by the Secretary : . 
A memorandum on the native operation of Lithotomy, by Mr. King ot ratna. 
Some remarks on Cholera, by Dr. A. Smith, of H. M. 44th Regiment. 
A case of tumour on the leg of a native, by Mi\ Dempster, of Buxar ; and a cli- 
nical report on the effects of Blood-letting in the cold stage of Intermittent lever. 
by Mr. Twining. . _ , , e 
Several numbers of the Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal; and a copy of 
the Supplement of the Edinburgh Dispensatory, were presented for the Library, by 
Dr. Duncan of Edinburgh. , ,, , 
Mr. King’s Memorandum, Mr. Twining’s Clinical Report, and Mr. Raleighs 
Observations on Cholera, were then read and discussed by the Meeting. 
2. Agricultural and Horticultural Society. 
A Special Meeting of this Society was held on Monday, 28th December, 1829; 
Sir E. Ryan, President, in the chair. c .. 
Lord Viscount Combermere Avas elected a Member of the Society. 
The following Gentlemen were also elected ; viz. .... uia«t-in 'Fan 
Roy Saltee Kinker Ghosal, Richard Hold«o^. Em.. : Blenk.n Esq , 
E. S. Ellis, Esq., Dr. Frith, Major Burney ; Mr. Richard Barnes, of Fumean , ana 
M M^ohn Abbott was duly elected Treasurer of the Society, in the room of Mr. 
n^ad'a^uer tVom E'-^Molony, Esq., Deputy Rupees 
cretary, intimating that Government hat re ,^ v t.he^ Society • but that before ac- 
20,000 for the purposes specibed m the o( 1 annually to be distributed as 
ceding to the proposition of granting a ui \ rnV pments appeared most deserv- 
prizes to those Avhose exertions in agricu uia imp f rece ivi n g particular 
ing of reward, the Governor General in to grant 
information in regard to the conditions up Tobacco, &c. as well as upon 
premiums for the most approved specimens of Cotton, > 
several other points therein enumerate . ^ d ^ refer the matters contained 
On the motion of the Pr f^ e h ty Secretary Molony’s letter to the Agricul- 
the two first paragraphs of Mr Deputy beoet ^ ^ Socie|y the best mode 
ral Committee, which woul :' .', >e „„ r dcr which the competition ought to 
turul Committee, which would be requestea to r p , b( , c0mpet iti o n ought to 
3f distributing premiums, and 3 “paraph to the Committee of Finance 
take place. To retcr the pomtsun the .hi p ^ and Captilin Jenkins, To 
ippointed last year, consisting of • ie Horticultural Committee; and that so 
refer the points in the 4th paragraph to the Horucuit 
