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cured some seeds of this remarkable plant, in a state fit for the 

 examination of their structure, though not for germination. (It 

 has been hitherto supposed to belong, along with Cytinus and 

 Nepenthes, to the natural order Cytineae.) 



Dr R. E. Grant then opened a small mummy-case in presence 

 of the Society : the case was brought from a catacomb in Upper 

 Egypt, and had one end formed into the resemblance of the 

 head of a cat. A few bones only remained ; and Dr Grant was 

 of opinion that they might be those of a small domestic cat. 



March 25. — There was read a paper by the Rev. Dr Fle- 

 ming of Flisk, entitled, " The Geological Deluge, as interpreted 

 by Baron Cuvier and Professor Buckland, shewn to be incon- 

 sistent with the testimony of Moses and the phenomena of na- 

 ture." (Printed in the Edin. Phil. Journ. vol. xiv. p. 205. et 



Professor Jameson exhibited and gave a general account of 

 several gigantic specimens of the vase-shaped sponge, common- 

 ly known by the name of Paterae or Neptune's cups ; these splen- 

 did specimens having been brought from the neighbourhood of 

 the Mauritius. 



A very excellent stuffed specimen of the Crocodile of the 

 Nile, 12 1 feet long, was also shewn to the meeting. 



April 8. — There was read a notice of a shower of young 

 herrings, which fell on the coast of Argyleshire, contained in a 

 letter from the Rev. Colin Smith of Appin to Professor Jame- 

 son. (Printed in the present number of this Journal, p. 186.) 



Dr Grant then read an account of a new zoophyte from the 

 Frith of Forth, forming a genus which connects Spongia and 

 Alcyonium, and which he proposed to call Cliona ; the species 

 found on old oyster-shells in our frith being Cliona celata of Dr 

 Grant. (Printed in the present Number, p. 78.) 



Mr Stark exhibited four drawers, containing a very complete 

 and beautiful suite of the numerous varieties of Ortrea opercu- 

 laris found in the Frith of Forth. And Mr Bald gave an inte- 

 resting account of the great coal-field of South Wales, and laid 

 before the meeting several very uncommon specimens of coal, 

 ironstone, Welch-rock (a sort of micaceous sandstone-flag), and 

 ore of titanium. 



At this meeting, the following new members were admitted : 



