The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-03 00:00:00

Samos C.—OEOLOOY.

This section met is the Senate Haws, ender the presidency
of Professor J. B. Josses, the chid of the Dish survey.
There was • large atiesdaseas, a sossidsrabis partials of
the audience coosisting of ladies. Anioog those present
wen Lord Enniskillen sad Professor Sedgwick.
The following gapers weal road :
" Os • Whittle Bose found is Barnwell gravel," by Mr.
H. fissly,
" On • deep Well at Norwich," by Mr. J. Cromptoo.
" Os a tertiary bitsmituitui Coal, with sons balks on ibis
brows coals of the Danube," by Professor Aided, F.R.S.
" On the alluvial Deposita on the Shiny" by Yr. R. A.
C. Godwin Aostui, F.R.S.
" Oa an ancient Bea Beach at Fort Witham," by Mr. J.
Gwyn Jefreys, F.S.S.
Sicnos D.

The meetiag of section 11, which was devoted to Zoology
and Bokey, iroludiog Physiology, was held in the Hall of
Goaville and Cahn College, which was crowded by member
sad visitors.

PrOTeesur HOILIT, P.R.&, the president, delivered a
very intercettog addrem on " The Objects, Condition and
Respectsol Biological Science," which he said involved one
of the largest and at the same time the most complete and
well-detieed provisoes which bad been sslsessd for diocumion
by the British Aineeistion. Whatever *awl se bad Ifni
mme within the sphere of section D, so far se the pheno-
mena which it exhibited were concerned. Selectisig the ox
se • familiar example he enumerated with great suromotnees
all the various aspezts under which a Deicer being might be
viewed, sad said that the history of biology led him to hope
everything and despair of nothing for its future. All the
pest triumphs of the science were easeutially modern, the
majority of them being the products of the 19tb oetitury ;
but he thought titEisidu,ed biological education in the
primary scheob, • • scholarships and fellowships is
our universities and and museums so contrived as
to educate the mind through the eye, and to furnish objects
for the investigator.
A vote of thanks having been been unanimously passed
to the President for his address,

Yr. Joint Guise read a paper "On the Inflorescence al
Plante."
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- Papers were elsOread by Mr. JonttLossocs, " On
two gnostic Species of Hymenoptess," one cif whisk swam
with its wings ; mid by Mr. J. G. sTIFFINTIN F.R.8.,
on a specimen of Astarte commas, laving its binge-teen
reversed. _ _ _

The next paper was one contributed by Hr. W. L. Lnio-
di; M.D.. F.H.8., on the foot-poison of New Zeelawd, a
plant which produced great mortality amowest the cattle
and sheep in that colony. It appeared that though it had
a poisonous intornoe ou the human subject, it was not fatal
to adults, but there were many cases in which children had
died from eating the berries or other parts of the tne. The
settlers had itemised serious loos by its savages moon
their stocks of animals, and they said they would look apes'
the discovery of sonic antidote for the poison as one of the
greatest boons which could be conferred upon them.
The Rev. WK. N. MOLIKWORTE, li. A., read •ppt"On
the Influence of the Conditions of &titmice in esoddyingthe
charactenof Spoons mid Varieties." It consisted chiefly of a
review of Dr. Darwin', work on the Origin of Species, the
theory contained in which be said was regarded by some
persons in the light of a wanton attack on beliefs and feel-
ings whioh every man, whatever his opinions, ought to re-
spect ; bat that imputation he believed to he unjust. A
theory on the origin of specie, had brag hese a soisatifio
desideratum, and one had been supplotellyDr. Darwin,
i which at once opened up awt field of i peology,
palsionology, and physiology, and w nay probably
give a new character and direction to all those essences. The
rev. gentleman, however, said that be neither edreatted bee
opposed Dr. Darwin's work, but desired °biddy to point est
a line of iovestiptiow to which he had not attached
sufficient importance, via, the changes which were con-
tinually taking place in the condition of animal
inisteoce, and the necessity of the variations which
arose out of those changes, so that the being might
be able to keep in barn:may with the condition, of its ena
Mies. Having condemned the intrusioe of scriptural
matters is scientific 41,4.th:items as theologically erroeeens
and scientifically miechievoas, he said they might pass oil to
the investigation of all the Creator's works without the.
slightest dread that scientific truth would ever come in cob
bake with moral and religious truth.
Atter a brief discussioo, in which Professor Rollwiten, al
Oxford, sad the Rev. Mr. &lapis, took part,
Professor DAUSZIIIT recommended all who had read Dr.
Darwin's first wort to peruse his second, which was im-
portant to hi reputation, sa it would dispel many notions
which had been wrongly entertained with regard to the
tendency of his witless.

Sus-Samos D.—PHYSIOLOG IT.

This liectioa est under the presideooy of Dr. Pans; in the
hall of Trinity Hall, but the ►udience sea woad.
The Pacoima, in his opining, remarked ce the limited
cultivation of physiology io Cambridge, and referred to the
cause of its comparative neglect, to the most able students
being attracted by the prises, scholarships, and fellowships,
which bare hitherto been given almost exclusively for pro-
&dew in clerics and mathematics. He described its
prospects as improving under recent academical changes,
and particularly the establishment of the Natural Sciences
Trlpos. He eulogised the Moors of Dr. Clark, and referred
to a most stablest' discourse by Dr. !Therm, on the pro.
Pm of phrsiology,es a reason for abstaining from the usual
mane of addressing the section on that subject.
Papers followed by Mr. George Robinson, 11. D., on the
study of the circulation of the blood ; by Mr. Charles Kidd.
M.D., on simple syncope as a coincident in chloroform so-
cideats ; by Mr. George D. Gibb, M.D.. on the phyla°.
Veil effects of the bromide of ammonium ; and by Mr. John
D►vy, M.D., P.R.S., on the obsess rations of the earth worm.