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A General Catalogue of the Principal Fixed Stars, from Observa- 

 tions made at the Hon. East India Company's Observatory at 

 Madras in the years 1830-43. By T. Glanville Taylor, F.R.S. 

 4to. — From the Hon. E. I, Company. 



Astronomical Observations made at the Hon. East India Company's 

 Observatory at Madras, in the years 1843-47 ; together with 

 the Recomputation of the Sun and Moon, and Planetary Obser- 

 vations, since 1831. By T. Glanville Taylor, F.R.S. 4to.— 

 From the Hon. East India Company. 



Astronomical Observations made at the Hon. East India Company's 

 Observatory at Madras. By Capt. W. K. Worster and W. S. 

 Jacob. 1848-52. 4to. — From the Hon. E. I. Company. 



Revenue Meteorological Statements of the North- Western Provinces, 

 for the several Official years from 1844-45 to 1849-50. 4to. 

 — From the Hon. E. I. Company. 



Meteorological Register kept at the Hon. East India Company's 

 Observatory at Madras. By J. Goldingham, F.R.S. , and T. 

 Glanville Taylor, F.R.S., for the years 1822-43. Folio.— 

 From the Hon. E. I. Company. 



Monday, 20th April 1857. 



Dr CHRISTISON, V.P., in the Chair. 



The following Communications were read : — 



1. On the recently discovered Glacial Phenomena of Arthur's 

 Seat and Salisbury Crags. By Robert Chambers, Esq. 



It will be remembered that, when the cutting was made, early in 

 1846, athwart the shoulder of Arthur's Seat above Samson's Ribs, 

 for the formation of the Queen's Drive, the rock was found hollowed 

 in a trough -form for a space of about eighty yards, and smoothed 

 and striated in the manner of a glacier-bed of the Alps. The striae 

 were in the direction of the hollow, pointing to east 20° south. 

 The whole was covered over with a brown tenacious clay, containing 

 fragments of rocks of the district, along with some supposed to have 



