They deserve the attention of the natural philosopher also from the influence these phenomena have in experiments relating to the decomposition of light. Cultivation of Sait trees. Medical Lectures.. MR. SCIENTIFIC NEWS. R. van Mons, of the Institutes of France and Holland, is publishing a "Theoretical and Practical System of Fructiculture, or Instructions for the Work of the Nursery and Fruitgarden in the Order of the Months." The extensive correspondence of the author having brought him acquainted with all the improvements lately made in this branch of science by a great number of persons distinguished for their education and talents, who have withdrawn from the fatigues of war or the toils of politics, or who, grieving at public and private calamities, or chagrined at the ingratitude and injustice of mankind, have retired to forget their sorrows in the quiet enjoyment of their gardens, he has conceived he should be rendering a service to many, by making them more generally known. The work, which commenced in January last, and will finish with December, is on the principle of a gardener's calendar, and will include every thing relating to the culture of fruit. It will give in detail the whole management of fruit trees in the nursery and in the garden, not from books however, but from the author's own experience, and the communications of his friends. Middlesex Hospital. Dr. SATTERLEY's Course of Clinical Instruction at the Middlesex Hospital will begin the first week in November: the attendance on the patients will be continued daily, and Lectures will be given once a week, or oftener, when it may be necessary, at eleven o'clock. Mr. CARTWRIght, Assistant Surgeon to the Hospital, will undertake such occasional demonstrations of morbid anatomy, as may be required for the illustration of the respective cases. The objects of the Course will also be extended to such remarkable peculierities peculiarities in the diseases of children, as may occur in the Foundling Hospital. tures. Dr. YOUNG will begin his Elementary Lectures on Che- Chemical and mistry, Physiology, the Practice of Physic, and the Ma- Medical Lecteria Medica, about the middle of December: he will deliver them on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, at 7 o'clock in the evening, throughout the season. St. George's Hospital, and George Street, Hanover Square. tures. On Saturday, October the 7th, a Course of Lectures on Medical and Physic and Chemistry will recommence in George street, Chemical Lecat the usual morning hours, viz. the Therapeutics at eight; the Practice of Physic at half after eight; and the Chemistry at a quarter after nine. By GEORGE PEARSON, M. D. F.R.S. Senior Physician to St. George's Hospital, of the College of Physicians, &c. Clinical Lectures are given as usual on the patients in St. George's Hospital, every Saturday morning, at nine o'clock. Dr. SQUIRE will begin a Course of Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery, and the Diseases of Women and Children, on the 3d of October, at his house, Ely Place, Holborn. The notice received from Dublin, and given in our Journal, No. 103, p. 239, that Professor Davy intended to give a Course of Lectures on Galvanism in that city, was erroneous; it being incompatible with the situation and duties of that gentleman to lecture in any other place than in the Royal Institution, where the usual Courses must be in progress at the very time mentioned in the said notice. Obstetrical Lectures. To CORRESPONDENTS. Mr. Rootsey's paper is obliged to be set aside, from my printers being unable to procure from the letter-founders the requisite types. Mr. Singer's communication will appear next month. J. S. of Hatton-garden, is deferred on account of the engraving. In the mean time I should be glad, if he would favour me with his address. |