_Scientific Discoveries and Proceedings of Learned Societies._--The British Association, 137.--Asiatic Society, 137.--Paris Geographical Society, 137.--Royal Society of Literature, 137.--Paris Academy of Sciences, 138.--London Royal Institution, 138.--Berlin Academy of Sciences, 138.--Improvements in Photographs, 138.--Colonel Rawlinson on the last Discoveries of Nineveh and Babylon, 426.--New attempts to discover Perpetual Motion, 426.--Document respecting the discovery of Steam Navigation at Venice, 427.--English Athletes, compared with Greek Statues, 427.--Discoveries at Memphis, 427.--Scientific Conventions, 427.--The Russian Academy, 571.--Scientific Congress in France, 571.--Paris Academy of Sciences, 571.--Ethnological Society, 571. Trot on the Island.--_By C. Astor Bristed_, 54 To the Author of Eothen.--_By Barry Cornwall_, 315 The King and the Outlaw.--_By an Old Contributor_, 482 Verses.--_By R. H. Stoddard_, 22 Visit to the "Maid of Athens," 116 Visit to the late Dr. Lingard.--_By Rev. J. C. Richmond_, 172 Veneer, Fraser's Magazine on English, 306 Visit to the Aberdeen Comb-Works, 856 Vagaries of the Imagination, 638 Veiled Picture: A Traveller's Story, The, 648 Watering Places, A Glance at the. (Fifteen Engravings.) 4 Webster, Noah, LL. D. (Portrait and birthplace.) 12 Waterloo, Tricks on Travellers at, 164 Wives of Southey, Coleridge, and Lovell, 241 Wallace, William Ross. (Portrait.) 444 Windsor Castle and its Associations. (Two Engravings.) 585 THE INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE _Of Literature, Art, and Science._ Vol. IV. NEW-YORK, AUGUST 1, 1851. No. I. REV. CALVIN COLTON. [Illustration]