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,, v, Mid from the register of the borings unci workings for 

 coal in Mr. Erskine of Mar's estate in that district; com* 

 municated by Mr. Robert Bald, civil engineer, Alloa. In 

 tins tirst part, Mr. bald treated only of the alluvial strata. 

 Iu continuing the subject, he is to illustrate it still farther 

 by exhibiting specimens of the rocks themselves. 



Mr. Charles Stewart laid before the Society a list of tlw I?*** 8 ne * r 

 Insects found by hiin in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, 

 with introductory remarks on the study of entomology. It 

 Would appear, that the neighbourhood of Edinburgh pos- 

 sesses no very peculiar insects, and but few rare ones. The 

 list contained about four hundred species; which, Mr. Stew- 

 art stated, must be considered as the most common, as they 

 Were collected in the course of two seasons or»4y, and with- 

 out very favourable opportunities. It was produced (he 

 added) merely as an incitement to younger and more zealous 

 entomologists. 



At this meeting there were laid on the Society's table the 

 first two volumes, 4to. of Count de Bournon's System of 

 Mineralogy, with a volumn of Outlines ; a present from the 

 author. 



AT a meeting of this Society on the 13th of May, the Mineralogy of 

 second part of Mr. Bald's interesting Mi nera logical De- s j^ re> 

 scription of Clackmananshire was read; giving a particular 

 account of two very remarkable slips or shifts in the strata, 

 near one hundred feet in depth, by reason of which the 

 main coal field of the country is divided into three lields, on 

 all of which extensive collieries have been erected. 



The Rev. Mr. Fleming of Bressay laid before the So- Flora of Lia>- 

 ciety an outline of the Flora of Linlithgowshire, including lt ,gow * 

 only such plants as are omitted by Mr. Lightfoot, or mark- 

 ed as uncommon by Dr. Smith. This, he stated, was to be 

 considered as the first of a series of communications illus- 

 trative of the natural history of his native country. 



Mr. P. Walker stated a curious fact in the history of the Edi found in 

 common eel. A number of eels, old and young, were j^Jjj terrdneac 



found 





