400 Proceedings of Scientific Institutions. 
of Dr. Briere, entitled, Considerations Medico Legales sur lV Interdiction des 
Alienés 
Mr Geoffroy St Hilaire made a verbal report on the second part of the Analy- 
tical Anatomy of Dr Manec. 
Mr Dupin read a memoir, entitled, Essay on the Comparative Progress of Pri- 
vate and Public Revenues in France and in Great Britain, from the beginning of 
the 16th century to the present day. 
Geographical Society.—4th Sep. 1829. Mr Eyries reported on some baro- 
metrical operations in relation to the high plain of Thuringia, and to the Harz 
and Thuringer Wald Mountains, made by Professor Berghans. 
My Sueur Merlin communicated some statistical documents upon St Pierre 
and Miquelon, and a manuscript chart, sent by Mr Brue de Garantieres, Go- 
vernor of these islands. 
My Jomard laid before the Society new specimens of the labours of the young 
Ethiopians, sent into France by the Consn] Drovetti. 
Meeting of the \8th Sep. 1829. Captain Dillon was presented to the Society 
by Mr C. Moreau. The President addressed the felicitations of the Society 
upon his memorable discovery of the remains of La Perouse. 
The Minister of the Marine communicated a letter from the Governor of 
Senegal, accompanied by the relation of ajourney which Mr Marres, a medical 
officer, made from St Louis to Bakel, by land and by water. ‘To this narrative 
is added an itinerary, with the approximative indication of the distances from 
Dounquel to Bakel. 
Mr Boune communicated the letters from Mr Bory St Vincent, and Mr 
Boblaye, containing topographical details for the rectification of the maps of 
Greece. . 
Mr Bruguiere sent in the conclusion of his manuscript on the Orography of 
Europe. 
Mr Woodbridge adressed two communications relative one to an isothermal 
map, the other to a method which he has imagined, of expressing upon maps 
the divers names applied to the same places at different historical epochs. 
Mr Jullien announced that Mr Everett, plenipotentiary minister from the 
United States, had expressed his desire of co-operating usefully with the labours 
of the Society. 
LITERARY NOTICES. 
Among the most prominent works which are about to issue from the Press, 
is a new edition, being the seventh, of the Encyclopedia Britannica, to be pub- 
lished in monthly parts, and to be edited by Professor Napier...The Rey. H. 
Moseley, B.A. has in the press a Treatise on Hydrostatics and Hydrodyna- 
mics...A new edition is in a state of forwardness for publication, of Rosarum 
Monographia, or a Botanical History of Roses, with coloured plates ; by John 
Lindley, Esq. F.R.S. &c.... Mr. Sweet has also nearly ready a second edition 
of his ‘¢ Hortus Britannicus.”...Sketches of the Medical 'Fopography of the 
Mediterranean, comprising a Description of Gibraltar, the Ionian Islands, and 
Malta, by the late Dr. Hennen, isin preparation by his son, Dr. John Hennen. 
List of New Books. 
Landers’ Records of Clapperton’s Expedition, 2 vols. post 8vo. L.1, Is. bds. 
..._ Kritischer Wegweiser im Gebiete der Landkarten-Kunde. Berlin. 1 vol. 
ovo. 2 rixdol....Journal d’un Voyage a Temboctou et Jeuné, &c.; par René 
Caillé. Paris. 30 fr....Die Europaische Turkey ; by Max. Fred. Thulen. 8vo. 
with a Map. Vienna. | thlr....Voyage Militaire dans Empire Ottoman; par 
le Baron Felix de Beaujour, tom. Imo. 8vo. Paris...Geographische Beschrei- 
bung von Mecklenberg-Schwerin, &e. ; by Gustave Lempel. 8vo. Nen-Strelitz. 
Statistica della Svizzera; by E. Francini, vol. 8vo. Lugano...A Year in 
Spain; by a Young American. Boston. 8vo. 
