Mr. H. E. STRICKLAND on the genus Cardinia, Agassiz, as characteristic of the Mr. W. WALKER on the Geological Changes produced by the Saxicava rugosa in Mr. WILLIAM SANDERS'S Notice of Sections of the Railway between Bristol and Bath, a distance of twelve miles, prepared by direction of a Committee of the Mr. JOHN CRAIG'S Notice of Sections of the Railways between Glasgow and Greenock, and Greenock and Ayr, prepared by direction of a Committee of Mr. T. B. JORDAN's Letter On Copying Fossils by a Galvanic Deposit' Rev. Dr. BUCKLAND'S Notice of Models for Illustration of the Succession and Dislocations of Strata, Mineral Veins, &c., constructed by T. Sopwith, F.G.S. 67 Mr. JONATHAN COUCH on the Zoology of the County of Cornwall....... Mr. J. C. BELLAMY on the Distribution, &c. of the Mammals of Devonshire... Mr. JOHN EDWARD GRAY on the Geographical Distribution of the Animals of Professor OWEN'S Account of a Thylacinus, the great Dog-headed Opossum, one of the rarest and largest of the Marsupiate family of Animals Mr. J. RICHARDSON'S Notices and Drawings of three new Genera of Marine Mr. P. F. BELLAMY's Description of two Peruvian Mummies, presented to the Devon and Cornwall Natural History Society by Captain Blanckley, of the 75 Dr. CALDWELL on the Varieties of the Human Race......... Rev. W. S. HORE's Remarks on the Flora of Devon and Cornwall................................. MEDICAL SCIENCE. Dr. A. T. THOMSON'S Observations on a Pustular disease hitherto undescribed by writers on Diseases of the Skin Dr. THEOPHILUS THOMPSON'S Abstract of a paper on the value of Opium as a remedy in Rheumatism, and on the circumstances which should regulate its Mr. J. V. SOLOMON's Facts as yet unnoticed in the Treating of Squinting...... 80 Mr. P. BENNETT LUCAS's Observations on two new Fascia connected with the Mr. RUMBALL'S Observations on Asthma........ Dr. FOWLER'S Observations on a Case of Deafness, Dumbness, and Blindness, Sir D. J. H. DICKSON'S Abstracts of an extraordinary case of Albuminous Ascites, with Hydatids; of five cases of Hepatic Abscess, and of two cases On the Economic Statistics of Sheffield, by a Committee ............ On the Vital Statistics of Sheffield, prepared by a local Committee, and for- Mr. W. NEILD'S Comparative Statement of the Income and Expenditure of certain Families of the Working Classes in Manchester and Dukinfield, du- 90 Mr. HENRY JOHN PORTER'S Account of the Monts de Piété of Rome, Paris, ............ Mr. A. RYLAND on the Income of Scientific and Literary Societies, and the Amount paid for Rates and Taxes in the year 1840......... Mr. JAMES HEYWOOD's Report on the State of Education in the Polytechnic School at Paris, prepared at the request of James Heywood, F.R.S., by an English resident at Paris Mrs. DAVIES GILBERT'S Results of some Experiments on a System of small Captain TAYLOR on a Floating Breakwater............................................ Mr. G. RENNIE on the Propulsion of Vessels by the Trapezium Paddle-wheel Mr. W. CHATFIELD on Truscott's Plan for Reefing Paddle-wheels ............... 101 Mr. J. GRANTHAM on a Plan of Disengaging and Reconnecting the Paddle- Mr. J. S. ENYS's Remarks on the Connexion which exists between Improve- ments in Pitwork and the Duty of Steam-engines in Cornwall ....... ......... 103 Mr. CHARLES THORNTON COATHUPE on an improved Sight for Rifles and other Mr. W. JOHNSON on the Granite Quarries of Dartmoor, and their Railways Sir ISAMBARD BRUNEL on the present state of the Thames Tunnel............... 106 NOTICES AND ABSTRACTS OF MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS TO THE SECTIONS. Addendum to the Report of the Transactions of the Sections in 1839. Ar the Meeting of the British Association in Birmingham in August 1839, Mr. Nasmyth communicated three papers, one to the Geological Section, on the Structure of Fossil Teeth; a second to the Medical Section, on the Microscopic Structure of the Teeth; and a third to the Medical Section, on the Structure of the Epithelium. Agreeably to the practice of the Association, the paper read to the Geological Section was delivered to the Secretaries of that Section, Dr. Lloyd and Mr. Strickland; and an abstract of its contents having been prepared by Dr. Lloyd, for insertion in that portion of the annual volume which contains notices of the proceedings of the Sections, the original memoir and the abstract were transmitted to the Assistant General Secretary (Mr. Phillips), by whom the memoir was returned to Mr. Nasmyth. With respect to the two papers read before the Medical Section, the practice above mentioned was not followed: no abstract of the contents of these papers was furnished by or through the Secretaries of the Section to the Assistant General Secretary. Notices of Mr. Nasmyth's papers appeared in the Athenæum and Literary Gazette of the period: those journals usually obtain such notices either from authors themselves or from reporters of their own: in the present case the Council have been informed by the respective editors, that the report in the Athenæum of the two papers read to the Medical Section was supplied, and the proofs corrected, by Mr. Nasmyth himself, and the notice of the geological paper by the reporter of the Athenæum; and that the report in the Literary Gazette was drawn up by the reporter of that journal, from a rough manuscript furnished to him by Mr. Nasmyth. In the October following the meeting, Mr. Nasmyth applied to Mr. Phillips to know whether the papers read by him at the meeting would be printed entire, or in the form of abstracts; and was acquainted in reply, that, according to usage, brief abstracts only could be inserted in the notices published by the Association, and unaccompanied by diagrams; the original memoirs and drawings being the author's own property, and at his own disposal. On January 28, 1840, Mr. Nasmyth informed Mr. Phillips that he was preparing abstracts of his papers, and desired to know whether the papers read to the Geological and Medical Sections on nearly the same subject should be reported on as one, or kept separate. He also requested Mr. Phillips to obtain for him, from the Secretary of the Geological Section, the original memoir read at that Section, as an application which he had made for it himself remained unanswered, and he had only rough notes of that paper from which to make the abstract. Mr. Phillips informed him in reply, 1841. B |