The Express.
London, England, 1861-09-12 00:00:00

bErrniN n.

Mr. lieboralem paper bbe pnnted le tbis reports, net
the folloviegystlmmen be requested to prepare report'
L. Crete advert —A report uu the peewits. at tie
weeds to be med is dookyanle.
Profiteer —Registration and publication of the
umnencal farts of chemistry.
rrufemoe Wilhamem—t Po scieutsfie evidence.
SECTION IL
Mat Mr. E. Jeffreys be requested to prepare a report os
d.
edgiest ea*teeee.
Yr. Foster—A report oe ninseular

SECTION E.
Yr. Hunt'. paper to be printed is extols*.
SECTION F.

Mr. Heywood —That ahaPiiielltiO; be made to Charity
Commiaaicniets.

SECTION O.

Admiral Sir E. Belcher—A report on steam navigation io
tt.r port of Locales.
Mr. Fairlawn—A report on the experiroenta under the
Matrebester Waterworks.

Mr. Atherton's paper on steam perCerm nee to be printed.
!Ir. Head's paper as the innrcased ■bipe to be printed in
intense.

Mr. 'Webster to enumicate with the parliamentary
committee regardies a Mann of the patent laws.

CONCLUDING OMER.% L MEETING.

The roorludieg general meetieg of the emaciation took
Owe at three o'clock in the Free Trade Hall.
The President of the Ansociation, Mr
sue sumunded on the pWtore by many of the leading
WPM Len of the Aseseletlem, and tint mignifloset hall was
tillrl by ladies and neediness.
For Zhu day the fallowieg ezeursiotie ere snagged :
To the Worsley Coal Nines : to the Dunkirk Coal Com-
pan)'. Astley deep pita at Dukiniteld : to the Greet Nan-
tes Salt Kano. mar Northwidi ; to the Dime sad Me-
meet Werke, Bt. Helee'e ; to the Copprr Mina, AWartwl
to the libumbeeter Waterworks.

NATURAL HISTORY SOIREE.
On Tuesday evening • soiree mid exhibition of botanical
and mohair:al lameness, contributed by members of the
Yea:baster Field Naturalists' Asemiatios, took place at the
Free-trade Ranged down the centre of the room ou
two long able were • variety of meet beautiful sod interest-
ing ohie-til of Datum! history. The collection of insect. wee
mmarlialdy od, Melodies uo tem them 14 drawers of
melito-
phile% contributed by J. A. Turner, Eel., M.P., vice.pre-
siring of the society. collection is stated to be the
&seat private collection of the kind 1. Europe, and, pro-
bably, the hest is the world. It con.priees several speci-
mens of the goliathas mants, of which extraordinary M-
osel the members of the Associative es their first visit to
Manchester. is IMS% were shown the first and male
specimen which bad then been trough% to EmLuni.
Mr. Turner also costrilmtel • roost interesting case of
100 Meseta, chaffy sew, collected by Dr. Living.tose
the Zambesi district. is Inoo, mad • fine odlectios of
British lards' ecp. Amongst the other contributors to this
class were Messrs. Harrison, Sidebotharn, Walsion,
toe, Lantos, Krisdenliss. sal Carter. la the bstmdeal de-
iartiseat. Mr. (fried= furnished a series 111 spesimms
dirt...stow the peesrass of vegetable development.
germinating were shown in three different stags
development, tad thew followed oak, w.duut,
sad filbert trees of the present year, with the seals Ma
rtuguise to the teethe raakts. The eoseentrie risp is the
MIMS of exogenous trees. such am the laburnum, cedar. sad
soft trees, he., each of which rinp indicates • year is tbs
Ile of the tree, were shows by horisostal and vertical OW
'sow A great somber of rare and curious fruits; sal mai%
chiefly foreign, had been forwarded from the eollectiossef
Marrs. Orunlon, Coward, Norris. Holland. mid other ntsffile
ben, and otter prialia.riosi of lute/set and rarity