398 Proceedings of Scientific Institutions. 
A paper on the Discovery of the Bones of the Iquanadon and other large Rep- 
tiles, in the Isle of Wight and Isle of Purbeck ; by the Rev. William Buck- 
land D.D., V.P., G.S., F.R.S., &c., was then read. 
PROVINCIAL. 
Plymouth Institution—The very excellent principles on which this Institution 
is founded, and the arrangements into which it has been able to enter, from the 
effectual support given to it by a numerous and talented accession of members, 
vouch to us, that by extending inquiry, disseminating knowledge, and exerting a 
spirit of scientific and literary emulation, it will be of real utility to that part of 
the United Kingdom in which it has been established. 
A Course of Lectures are delivered each Session, in which the learned mem- 
bers appointed to officiate lecture on their particular branch of inquiry in succes- 
sion, furnishing a series of lectures on different subjects, and a constant change 
of professors. 
The following lectures, for example, still remain to be given. 
Feb. 4. Rev. J. Punnett. Society—_Its Claims on the higher Classes of the 
community. 
~ Feb. 11. Rev. S. Rowe. | Poor Laws. 
Feb. 18. Mr J. Prideaux. Chemical Properties of Water. 
Feb. 25. MrJ. WN. Bennett. Political Constitutions. 
March 4. Mr H. Woollcombe. Crimes and Punishments. 
March 11. Mr W.S. Harris. Electro-Magnetism. 
March 18. Rey. R. Lampen. Age and Writings of Pope. 
We hope to be able to give occasionally notices of the proceedings of this In- 
stitution, the first volume of whose transactions is, we believe, already preparing 
for the press, and will probably be published early in the ensuing year. 
The office-bearers for the years 1829-30, are as follows : 
President. Mr H. Woollcombe. 
Vice-Presidents. Dr Blackmore; Rev. R. Lampen; Mr A. B. Johns. 
Treasurer, Mr H. Gandy.—Secretary, Mr R. W. Coryndon. 
Curators. Library, Rev. 8S. Rowe. Apparatus, Mr W.S. Harris. Museum, 
Mr Gabriel. Atheneum, Dr E. Moore. 
FOREIGN. 
Academy of Sciences.— Meeting of Monday Nov. 2, 1825. Messrs Isidore 
Bourdon, Breschet, Roux, and Richerand, presented themselves as candidates 
for the seat vacant by the demise of Mr Pelletan. 
Mr Gay Lussac reported on the experiments of Mr Aldini, on the efficacy 
ef the means employed by him to preserve fire-men from the action of flames. 
Mr Geofiroy St Hilaire presented portraits of the two Siamese, and of Chas- 
tina-Ritta. 
Mr Hericart de Thury sent a letter on the opening of two wells in the town 
of Lyons. 
Meeting of Nov. 9.—Mr Bellandef sent bones of paleotherium, feund in argil- 
laceous beds beneath the calcaire grossier (Parisian limestone,) Mr Cuvier 
stated, that the jaw presented belonged to a lophiodon, and not a paleotherium. 
Mr Cauchy presented a new memoir on the solution of numerical equations. 
Mr Dureau de la Malle, presented to the Academy remains of fossil aramals, 
found six leagues from Angers, in a bed of Parisian limestone. 
Meeeing of the \6th Nov.—Mr Uarrey was elected to the seat vacant by the 
death of Pelietan. 
Mr Deshayes addressed to the Academy a work on the fossil shells of the en- 
virons of Paris. 
Mr Robert sent to the Academy fossil bones, belonging to the anoplotherium, 
from the beds beneath the ats limestone, 
