158 



Seasrufce. 



Plants near 



Edinburgh. 



SCIENTIFIC NKWS. 



found in a subterraneous pool at the bottom of an old 

 quarry, which had been filled up, and its surface ploughed 

 and cropped for above a dozen of years past. 



The Secretary read a letter from the Ilev. Mr. Maclean, 

 of Small Isles, mentioning the appearance of a vast sea- 

 snake, between 70 and 80 feet long, among the Hebrides, 

 in June, 1808. 



Aud he produced a list of about one hundred herbaceous 

 plants, and two hundred cryptogamia, found in the King's 

 Park, Edinburgh, and not enumerated in Mr. Yalden's ca- 

 talogue of plants growing there ; communicated by Mr. G. 

 Dow, of Forfar, late superintendant of the Royal Botanic 

 Garden at Edinburgh. 



Etementory 

 treatise oil 

 Geology. 



Mr. De Luc has in the press an Elementary Treatise on 

 Geology , which will contain an examination of some modern 

 geological systems, and particularly of the Huttonian 

 Theory of the Earth. We understand, that this work js 

 translated from the French manuscript of the Rev. II. De 

 la Fite, M. A., and will form an octavo volume. 



French Jour- I HAVE just received some of the French Journals, that 

 n ^* have been so long in arrear; and am informed, that the rest 



are on their way from Paris. From those that have come 



to hand I extract the following. 

 P hi in mica ^ r * Klaproth has discovered in mica sixteen per cent of 



potaJi. 

 Turkois ana- Dr. John, of Berlin, has lately described and analysed an 

 lysed. oriental turquoise from Bisiapoor, near Corasan, which he 



found to contain 



Alumine 73 



Oxide of copper 4*5 



■ iron 4 



Water 18 



This 



