1784. 



Regifter of the 

 weather at 

 JBranxholm. 



1785. 



Jan. 17. 



Mr Frafer-Tyt- 

 ler on the Scan- 

 dinavian na- 

 tions. 



Jan. 24. 

 Gen. Meeting. 



36 HISTORY of the SOCIETY. 



though the unhealthy rainy feafon was there harojy over. 

 Thefe fafts, which appear fo very wonderful, Dr BLANE men- 

 tions with confidence, they being confirmed by a concurrence 

 of teftimony, and, in fome meafure, by his own obfervation. 



Dr WALKER prefented and read the title of a paper, commu- 

 nicated by his Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUGH, Prefident of 

 the Society, containing a Regifter of the Quantity of Rain that 

 fell, the height of the Barometer and Thermometer, and the 

 general bearing of the Wind at Branxholm for ten years, ending 

 December 31.1 783. The Regifter is publifhed in this volume. 

 [No. IX. Pbyf. Cl.} 



Lit. Cl. Mr ALEXANDER FRASER-TYTLER read a Diflerta- 

 tion on the Character, Manners and Genius of the Ancient 

 Scandinavian Nations. He did not incline that the Diflertation, 

 or any abitracl: of it, mould be publiihed. 



A GENERAL meeting of the Royal Society was held for the 

 eleclion of Members. 



Donations. j) r WALKER laid before the meeting a colleclion. of fpe- 



chnens of natural hiftory, and other curiofities, which had 

 been prefented to the Royal Society. Thefe are enumerated in 

 the Lift of Donations, printed at the end of Part I. of this vo- 

 lume. 



Feb. 2 1. 

 Mr Hill on hi- 

 ftorical compe- 

 tition. 



March 7. 

 Dr Button's 

 theory oi the 

 earth. 



Lit. Cl. Mr Profeflbr. JOHN HILL read the remainder of his 

 EfTay on Hiftorical Compofition, published in this volume. 

 [No.. IV. and VIII. Lit.Cl.] 



Phyf. Cl. Dr BLACK, in the ab fence of the Author, read the 

 firft part of Dr HUTTON'S Theory of the Earth, which is pub- 

 liihed in this volume. [No.. X. Pbyf, C7.] 



Lit. 



