They were classed by Mr. Hunter in the following or der: first, the parts constructed for motion; secondly, the parts essential to animals respecting their own internal economy; thirdly, parts superadded for purposes concerned with external objects; fourthly, parts designed for the propagation of the species, and the maintenance and protection of the young.

This valuable collection, after the death of Mr. Hunter, was purchased by government, and committed to the care of the college of surgeons, who have formed arrangements to render it an object of national utility, and public lectures have been commenceed on its various subjects.At present, the superintendance of it is committed to a certain number of the college, who are termed its curators, and to whom application must be made for a view of it, except during the months of May and June, when,

on previously leaving the name, it may be seen, in par

ties, every Tuesday and Thursday.

Apothecaries' Company.

This is a livery Company of the city, and has exclusive privileges and immunities; but formerly any person, however ignorant, might vend medicines to the public, in any part of the city, provided he is free of any other city company. But this is now remedied by a recent act of parliament. Those, however, who desire to have unadulterated drugs, may place the most secure reliance on what are sold at Apothecaries' Hall, in Blackfriars.

This company has an establishment at Chelsea, called the Botanic Garden, which was going to decay, but under the care of Mr. Anderson, the present gardener, it bids fair to be restored to its former state.

British Mineralogical Society.

This society was formed in the year 1799, for the express purpose of analyzing, gratuitously, such of our native minerals as may be sent to the society by the owners of mines, or other persons interested in the inquiry. It is required that the specimen sent to the society be of four pounds weight, and in as few pieces as possible, accompanied by a paper stating the provincial name of the specimen, the name of the parish and county where found, the

depth of the mine or quarry where procured, the general extent and bearing of the vein or stratum towards the points of the compass, and the mode of procuring the mineral substance, whether by blasting, by the pick-axe,&c. The society also will examine, free of expense, all specimens of earths and soils, with a view of determining the nature and proportion of their different contents, for the promotion of the agricultural interests of these kingdoms.

No person can be admitted a member of this society who is not able and willing to undertake a chemical analysis of a mineral substance. The society meets every other Thursday. Mr. Pepys, of the Poultry, is the se

cretar

Entomological Society

This society was established in 1806. Its pursuits are directed to the study of the science of Entomology; but more especially of insects found in Great Britain; pointing out the readiest and most desirable methods of destroying those which possess noxious properties, and making known those properties, of others, which may prove either useful to science, or beneficial to mankind.

It holds is meetings monthly, and the members then produce such insects, whether British or Exotic, as have recently come into their hands, by which means excellent collections have been formed with great facility. The president of this society is A. H. Hasworth, Esq

The other Scientific and Literary Institutions, not al- « ready noticed, the meetings of which present a variety of gratification in regard to their particular objects, at which occasional lectures are delivered, or where interesting museums and collections may be seen, are

1. The Linnean Society, is a chartered society, devoted to botany and natural history, which holds its meetings in Gerrard Street, and the present president is Sir J. E. Smith, of Norwich. This society has been chartered about twenty years, and consists of a president, treasurer, secretary, council, and of an indefinite number of fellows. They have published a number of volumes of their transactions.

2. The Board of Agriculture, established in 1793, by Sir John Sinclair and Mr. Arthur Young, and which has been supported by a grant of 3000l. per annum from parliament, holds its meetings at its house in Sackville Street, for the important purpose of improving the agricultural practice of the empire.

3. The Medical Society of Bolt Court. This distinguished professional institution, was instituted in 1773, and has since benefited the world with many valuable volumes of transactions.

4. The Westminster Library, Jermyn Street, is the first of those metropolitan establishments, since known under the name of institutions, and is supported by annual subscribers, for the purchase of books, newspapers, and new publications. About ten years since this library received, on certain terms, the books of the London Library, so that it now possesses a very respectable collection of books, which are daily increasing. The house is commodious for the purpose, and every attention is shewn to render the establishment useful to the public.

5. The Geological Society was instituted so late as 1813, and holds its meetings in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, for the purpose of giving effect and combination to the study of the structure of the earth, and the principles of mineralogy. Messrs. Horner and Aikin are its secretaries, and it has already published two interesting volumes of transactions.

6. The Philosophical Society of London, whose pursuits are analogous, but more active and strictly scientific than the Royal Society, was founded in 1810, and boasts of many respectable characters among its members. It holds its meetings in Crane Court, in the original bouse of the Royal Society.

7. The Mathematical Society, Spital Fields, has been the means of propagating much useful knowledge and has had to boast of Thomas Simson among its members.

8. The Horticultural Society, instituted in 1808, is chartered, for the purpose of improving the growth of useful trees, has proved its beneficial purposes by some volumes of transactions of singular worth. Its president is Mr. T. A. Knight.

9. The Medical and Chirurgical Society, founded in 1805, and meeting in Lincolin's-Im-Fields, has analogous objects to the Bolt Court Society, and includes among its officers, some of the most eminent of the London faculty. Its president is Sir G. Blane, and its secretaries Dr. Roget and Mr. Lawrence.

10. The City Philosophical Society was instituted in 1808, as a practical school of natural philosophy for the diffusion of scientific knowledge by lectures and conversations, which are supported by the gratuitous exertions of the members. The meetings are held every Wednesday evening at the society's room, Dorset Street, Salisbury Square.

LECTURES ON MEDICINE, SURGERY, &c.

As it may be interesting to many persons to be informed concerning the philosophical and medical lectures given in different parts of the metropolis,

The Royal Institution, in Albermarle Street, was founded in the year 1799, for the purpose of encouraging experimental philosophy and chemistry; and the arts dependent upon them. Mr. Brande, who is professor of chemistry in this institution, delivers a course on that science, and other gentlemen on different branches of knowledge.

Gresham Collegs is an endowment for professors of seven liberal sciences, viz. divinity, law, physic, astrononomy, geometry, music, and rhetoric.-The lectures are given gratis twice a day in a room over the east-end of the Royal Exchange, during the terms, and are at present ill attended. It is expected that these lectures will be removed to the London Institution.

By much the greater number of lectures in London are on the branches of medicine and medical philosophy. We shall hereafter give a list of them.

The medical lectures, which we shall enumerate, are attended by a prodigious number of students from every part of the world, who have many very valuable opportu

nities of prosecuting the study of practical anatomy, and of seeing medical and surgical practice in the hospitals.

In the greater number of these lectures, particularly the medical there are two courses given in the season, one commencing in October, the other in January. The terms and hours of attendance are specified in the cards and printed proposals, which may be had at the houses of all the lecturers.

Eight or nine hundred students, at least, come every year to London for the purpose of attending the different hospitals and lecturers; so that, though this city does not confer the degrees of an university, it contributes more to the advancement of medical science, in its practical branches, than any other city in the British dominions, not excepting Edinburgh itself. The combined method of walking the hospitals and attending lectures, is, beyond all doubt, much the best of any yet devised, for the improvement of medical science; and especially for the for mation of medical practitioners. Inexperienced and timid, yet rash pretenders to medicine and surgery, are not now, as they formerly were, dispersed through country towns in the same abundant ignorance; country surgeons have generally been present at, and assisted in all the common, and in many of the extraordinary cases of surgical operation. To practical they also add some portion of theoretical knowledge. The lectures that are read, as well at the houses of professors as at the hospitals, are by men whose tried abilities have gained them pre-emi◄ nence, and they exemplify and systematize facts, greatly to the benefit of the students.

EXHIBITIONS

OF

NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL CURIOSITIES.

Bullock's Museum, Piccadilly.

THIS Collection is one of the most complete of its kind, and contains upwards of thirty thousand different articles,