Vice-Chancellor's Court, ...
Mr. H OrNE moved forP speciaI,WunctiXo igainst the above de- fendant, upon an afflidavit stating dth e 0oMringcrcumstqnce. -.The detendant had been employed by th&HoxticdtWirASodety6f'Lon- don to make a voyag ofArthe outhcfa eoast -o , a4 and to the Brazeils, for tbhe pUKple of cofecting crtain obc'. of natural his. tory irt order 'toumin1e nnd'llnsf4te the colieon-anlieddy made by tLat Eebdey. Pravious to hln yparture, the d6ftdant, eed with this 0ociety, for a certain peculllary compennation, that all the motes And observattons svhich'might-be made by.hiniiis'h1sjournl during the voyage, as t(clIes.eUthe pcimeds-ohenmIgbebe to collect, ohoald be the poperty o'the Hocutural &eiety, cad should bedeliveredovei tothent bythOefiendntoUhiareSur^.A paper of instruction6deliver &tothedefcndnt previousto departure, in which iliese terms werepex;ified, wvr, refrl-toin.proof of the a!- legations. The affidavit went on to,kharge 1that the defendant had, however, in violation of his agreem4it, mnaeuse of smeof te spe- timcns collected by him in vatioui wsav. Somn partof them, he hadl sold, and others he had give'way' He hkn also publshed some part of the information he hdvcollected, and which. mi puru- ance of lis agreement, was in fget the property of ltheHorti. cultural Society, no less than th- specimens of natural history, in the shape of an article in-/ the October number of the Rdinbhurgi Phliosopldcal Journai aThe seciety. felt themselves obliged to vindicate their right ia what they .onsider,id thedi. abaohte propertj, atd for which they had paid, and thcy hb there. fore ordered the present it to beommenced. The prayer vas, that the defendant shaould sbe rest daed from publ?shins o c'omu nicating t'r publication any part oft'he ijformttiot col1eled by hino: or containedt ins-lIe-notee-or ohsesantiona of hio journail during his voyagc: ?md aalo th2t he should Wbaertmined from dleposlagIn2ny manner ofthe'vatiouirpeclmnns't cit he hzd obtaitied during the same voyage. The injunction iras immediatelygranted4 no peraon appearing on the other side. VICE-CHANCEELLR'S CO iT. TUEmnAY: DP. 2L THE HOHlTICUltTUfAL SacF.eA np viwTinii v nnir