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The Professor also gave an account of the occurrence of phos- 

 phate of lime, in balls or concretions, in the bituminous shale of 

 the coal formation. 



Dr R. E. Grant then read a paper on the structure and na- 

 ture of the SpongiUa Jriabilis, and exhibited recent specimens 

 from the rocks and stakes on the east side of Loch end, near 

 Edinburgh. (This paper is printed in the Edinburgh Philo- 

 sophical Journal, vol. xiv. p. 11 3, et seq.) 



There was exhibited to the meeting a collection of magnificent 

 specimens of doubly refracting spar from Iceland, the property 

 of Mr Witham, and collected, last summer, by Mr Rose and 

 Mr Brown, from a great vein, about fourteen feet wide, travers- 

 ing trap-rock of the nature of amygdaloid. 



Feb. 25. — The Secretary read Mr William Scott's Observa- 

 tions on the Climate of Shetland, &c., and laid before the meet- 

 ing a Meteorological Journal, kept at Unst, by Mr Scott. He 

 likewise read a notice, communicated by Mr Trevelyan, relative 

 to the numerous teeth of the rhinoceros lately discovered in the 

 cave near Kent's Hole, and also regarding the teeth of an un- 

 known quadruped found in the same cave. 



Professor Jameson then read the first part of . a paper, enti- 

 tled, " Remarks tending to explain the Geological Theory of 

 the Earth." 



March 11. — Professor Jameson read the concluding part of 

 the Observations on the Theory of the Earth. 



The Secretary read an extract of a letter from Prof. Buckland 

 of Oxford to Mr Jameson, regarding the lately discovered cave 

 near Torquay, which has been considered as an antediluvian 

 hyena's den. Specimens of the bones, supposed to have been 

 gnawed by the hyenas, were exhibited ; and several members 

 gave it as their opinion, that these bones had been gnawed by 

 some quadruped ; while others remarked, that, in some cases, 

 the erosion in the middle of a bone was so great, that it must 

 have snapped through, had such erosion been produced by for- 

 cible gnawing. 



The President exhibited to the meeting several large flower- 

 buds of the Rqfflesia Arnoldi of Sumatra, with a coloured 

 engraving representing the flower when fully expanded. It was 

 mentioned by Mr Arnott, that Mr R. Brown had lately pro- 



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