292 Perenmal Calendar. 



mieteorology, and antiquities of Scotland. The library is now extensive, 

 and contains many of the modern standard works . connected with the 

 sciences which the Society cultivates. The museum has made great progress 

 and now contains a considerable collection of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, 

 insects, shells, &c.; a numerous general collection of plants, and also a 

 remarkably complete herbarium of Scotland ; a valuable collection of simple 

 minerals, amounting to 500 specimens, a very perfect series of rocks, and 

 more particularly a collection illustrative of the geological structure of 

 Scotland ; and a collection of coins, antiquarian relics, &c. It will be 

 unnecessary to remark on the flourishing state of this Society, when it is 

 stated that it is at present composed of upwards of 180 members. [For the 

 above communication we are indebted to Thomas Torrie, Esq., who has 

 obligingly added an abstract of the proceedings of this Society, from Nov. 

 1827 to June 1828, which, we regret, want of room obliges us to defer till a 

 future opportunity.] 



Neiv or rare Plants which have flowered in the Neighbourhood of Edin- 

 burgh, and chiefly in the royal botanic garden, during the last three 

 months, communicated io Jameson* s Phil. Jour., for June 1828, by Dr. Gra- 

 ham : Begonia dip^tala, B. papillosa, Cattleya intermedia, Congspermum 

 cricifolium, Z^raba gracilis, Eriostemon ^alicifolius, Ifedysarum nutans, 7Vis 

 lutescens, Nicotiawa glauca, and Polygala paucifolia. 



Art. V. Perennial Calendar for various Parts of Europe. 



We now insert the remainder of the form which we intend our corre- 

 spondents to fill up. We should wish to receive, before the 1st of October, 

 all the criticisms on this form, intended to be sent us, in order that we 

 may be able to make our final corrections, in time to distribute the skeleton 

 letters to our correspondents at the different stations, by the 1st of Novem- 

 ber. We are still in want of correspondents for several of the stations, 

 and we should be glad to add to those of Europe as many as we can in 

 America. 



We consider that the register of this skeleton calendar in this Magazine, 

 even if we should never be able to get it filled up to our satisfaction, will 

 tend to the advancement of meteorological science ; for, by enabling 

 various persons in different countries of Europe and America, to direct 

 their attention to the same plants and animals, when at any future period 

 their observations are made public, through whatever channel, they will 

 admit of a more accurate and useful comparison than has hitherto been 

 made. Thus many men, in different places and in different lands, may be 

 silently, and unknown to each other, cooperating, in well-directed efforts, to 

 attain the same object. 



Skeleton Perennial Calendar, continued from p. 1 95. 



Flora for March. — Plants came in flower, viz. the daffodil on the 

 , crocus , polyanthus , primrose , almond , 



apricot on walls , chickwejd , wall speedwell , violet 



, tulip , green hellebore , narcissus , common 



heath , dandelion , marigold , heart's ease , dog's 



violet , pilewort , wood sorrel , dog's mercury , 



checkered lily , and field turnip on the . Trees flower, viz. 



the gooseberry on the , Lombardy poplar , ash j and 



horsechestnut and balsam poplar begin to shoot on the 



