of the atmosphere, the intense cold of which he will oppose by slaking lime in iron box-stoves. Pending nominations Nos. 397 to 415 were read and balloted for; and, there being no further business, the ballotboxes were opened, and the following named gentlemen declared duly elected members of the Society: Dr. F. V. Hayden, of Washington. Mr. Sidney George Fisher, of Philadelphia. Dr. H. D. Bronn, of Heidelberg. Dr. Theodor Ludwig Wilhelm Bischoff, of München. Prof. Joseph Hyrtl, of Vienna. Mr. Claude Bernard, of Paris. And the Society was adjourned. Stated Meeting, August 17, 1860. Present, two members. The following donations for the Library were announced: Bulletin de l'Academie Royale, 1858. T. IV, V, 1859. T. VI, 8vo. Tables générales et analytiques du Recueil des Bulletins de l'Academie, 1re serie. Tome I à XXII (1832 and 1856), 8vo. 1858. Mémoires Couronnés et autres Mémoires, publiés par l'Academie. Tome VIII, 8vo. 1859. Tome XXIX, 4to. 1858. Mémoires de l'Academie, 4to. Tome XXXI. 1859. Bruxelles. Annales de l'Observatoire, 4to. Tome XIV. 1859. Bruxelles. Obs. des Phén. Period. (Ex. de T. XXXI, des Mém. de l'Acad.) Annuaires de l'Acad. et de l'Obs. for 1859. 12mo. and 16mo. Rymbybel van Jacob Van Maerlant. Published by the Government and in the name of the Academie, with Introduction, Variis lectionibus, &c., by T. David, Professor of the Catholic High School; in Low Dutch, 8vo, unbound. Tweede deel. (The first part hereafter.) 1859. Discours de M. A. Quetelet. Pamphlet. 8vo. Note sur un Principe Remarquable en Géometrie, par M. E. Quetelet. Pamphlet. 8vo. Obs. des Passages de la lune, &c. A. Quetelet. 8vo. Eclipse de Soleil du 15 Mars, 1858. 8vo. Méteorologie et Astronomie. 1858. 8vo. Note sur l'Aurore de 21 Av. 1859. Sur les Etoiles filantes et le Magnetisme terrestre. A. Quetelet. 8vo. Géodesie, Magnetisme. 8vo. Magnetisme Terrestre. 8vo. Reduction du Temps des Oscillations d'une Aiguille aimanteé à un arc evanouissant. Lettre de M. Hansteen a M. Er. Quetelet. 8vo. Sur le Magnetisme terrestre. A. Quetelet. 8vo. Table de Mortalité, &c. A. Quetelet. 8vo. (The above are pamphlet extracts from the bulletins of the Academie.) VOL. VII-2 T Institutes of Medicine, by Martyn Paine. 8vo. 5th edit. 1859. 27th Annual Report of the R. Cornwall Polytechnic Society. " Stated Meeting, September 21, 1860. Present, twelve members. Judge SHARSWOOD, Vice-President, in the Chair. Letters were read from newly-elected members, Sir William Logan, dated Montreal, August 1, 1860, and Mr. Sidney George Fisher, dated Rising Sun Lane, July 30, 1860, acknowledging the receipt of notice of their election. Letters, acknowledging the receipt of the Society's publications, were read from the Royal Academy at Bruxelles, the American Oriental Society, and the American Statistical Society. The following donations for the Library were announced : Transactions of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria (January, August, 1859), vol. IV, part i. J. McAdam, Hon. Secretary and Editor. Melbourne, 8vo. Catalogue of the Lepidepterous Insects in the Museum of Natural History at the E. I. House, by T. Horsfield and F. Moore. Vol. II. 8vo. London. 1858-'59. Monthly Notices of the R. Ast. Soc., XX. No. 8. Proceedings R. S. Edinburgh. Sessions 1858-'59. Journal R. Dublin Soc. No. xvi (January), xvii (April). 1860. 66 66 June, 1860. Bound, 332 pp., 8vo. From the publishers. The Evangelical Repository, XVIII, Nos. 3 to 6, 10 to 12; XIX, Nos. 1 to 4. 1859-'60.-From W. Young. Jour. Proc. 76th Convention, Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Pennsylvania, held in Philadelphia, May 22–4. 4to. 1860. 8vo. 240 pp. Jour. Proc. General Convention, Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States, 1859, with Constitution and Digest of the Canons. Phila., 1860. 8vo. (600 pp.) like the last, unbound. Twelfth Ann. Report Maryland Institute. Balt., 1860. Bd. vol. 8vo. The African Repository, for August, September, 1860. Boletin de la Sociedad de Naturalistas Neo Granadinos. Bogota, Londres, 1860. Pamphlet, 24 pp. Notes on the Apparent Universality of a Principle Analogous to Vegetation, on the Physical Nature of Glass, and on the Probable Existence of Water in a State Corresponding to that of Glass, by Ed. W. Bayley, F. R. S. (Proc. Royal Society, X, 450). 1860. 8vo. Pamphlet. 11 pp. Bibliotheca Historico-Naturalis, Physico-Chemica et Mathematica; Oder systematisch geordnete Ubersicht der in Deutschland und dem Ausland auf dem Gebiete der Gesammen Naturwissenschaften und der Mathamatik neuerschienenen Bücher. Herausgegeben von E. A. Zuholds. IX Jahr, 2 heft. Juli bis Dec., 1859. Göttingen. 8vo. (unbound, p. 140 to 250.) [With alphabetical register.] Illustrated Catalogue of Optical Instruments. McAllister & Brother. Philadelphia, 8vo. Pamphlet, 100 pp. On the Impurities of Commercial Zinc, &c., by C. W. Elliott and F. H. Storer, (Mem. A. A. A. S.) 4to. Pamphlet, 40 pp. The Manufacture of Vinegar, its Theory and Practice, by C. M. Wetherill. Philadelphia, 1860. 8vo. 300 pp. Artificial Lactation, by C. M. Wetherill. (Trans. Indiana State On the Relative Cost of Illumination in Lafayette, Indiana, by C. M. The decease of a member of the Society, M. André Marie Constant Duméril (born at Amiens, January 1, 1774), at Paris, in August last, aged 86, was announced by the Librarian. An obituary notice of the late Mr. H. D. Gilpin was read by Mr. Joseph R. Ingersoll, as follows: It is not always easy to account for the success that appears habitually to accompany the career of particular individuals. Where great merit exists, the circumstance seems naturally to explain itself. But good fortune is not necessarily or at all times the companion of great qualities. It is in some respects capricious, and many persons in ordinary life have thought that they had reason to put faith, as Bonaparte did in war, in the influence of a friendly star. One of the richest private men of the age is said to have disclaimed all right on the score of abilities and skill, or even of careful management of his affairs, and to have imputed his wonderful prosperity to what he modestly called luck. A very moderate degree of merit, and a seeming indifference to opportunities for gathering riches within easy reach, do not prevent the accidents of many a life from being marked with a frequent attainment of wealth. It may happen, too, though perhaps more rarely, that much positive desert, combined with laborious and apparently well-directed exertions, will fail to receive a just reward in what are regarded the gifts of fortune. Each of these conditions must be looked upon as an exception to a sound general rule. As such they are far from disproving its reality or its soundness. They serve, indeed, while the departures from it are only occasional, to confirm the existence and establish the truth of a principle, worthy to be cherished in all the relations of life. Otherwise they would be strange contradictions in practice of some of the best lessons of philosophy. They are at variance with established maxims of wisdom, with daily lessons of experience, with doctrines of universal morality, and with the earnest and virtuous promptings of conscious and enlightened duty. Could they be considered in any other light, they would go far to impeach the instructions which should never be lost sight of, that foresight and discretion are commonly the companions of virtue, and that folly is often the forerunner of crime. Cause and effect, are inherent in our nature. Their immediate connection is not always to be seen. It is nevertheless true that almost every event in the history of individuals or nations, although not easily to be traced to its sometimes hidden origin, is the result of a possibly remote, but efficient cause. Merit and demerit, and the fruits of them in conduct must have their consequences. The safest lesson that philosophy can teach, is that the fortunate are the wise. Contingencies exist in all human affairs against which the utmost prudence cannot always guard. Open hostility sometimes, and that of a secret and insidious kind still more frequently, is entertained against the deserving. The |