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April 2. A paper on the Geology of Weymouth, and the adjacent parts of 

 the coast of Dorsetshire, by the Rev. Dr. Buckland, and Henry Thomas de la 

 Beche, was read. 



April 1 6, The reading of the paper on the Geology of Weymouth, and the 

 adjacent parts of the coast of Dorsetshire, was concluded. 



A paper entitled " Description of a New Species of Ichthyosaurus," by Daniel 

 Sharpe, Esq. F.G.S., was then read. 



PROVINCIAL. 



Newcastle Natural History Society At the monthly meeting of the Newcastle 



Natural History Society, on 1 8th May, the Vicar of Newcastle in the chair, it 

 was resolved that the Anniversary Meeting shall be held on the first Tuesday 

 in August, and not in June, as before intended. By this re-arrangement it was 

 hoped more country members would be able to attend ; and the Transactions of 

 the Society, now printing, be more complete. The receipt of presents was then 

 acknowledged. Several Engravings to illustrate Mr Selby's paper on the new 

 Swan (Cygnus Bewickii) having been presented by that gentleman to the society, 

 prints of them were laid on the table ; for them, and his valuable present of bird- 

 skiriS, the thanks of the meeting were unanimously voted to him. An account 

 of the situation of several Hazel Nuts found in an old mine near Alston, while 

 driving a drift for lead ore, was communicated by Mr Pattinson, of that town ; 

 they were diffused through a mass of gravel, in the limestone strata, of about a 

 cubic foot thick. Some observations, by Mr Francis Forster, on the geology of 

 Racheuch Crag, were then read ; they went to prove, from the various particulars 

 of the basalt, &c. in the neighbourhood of each, that the crag was a continuation 

 of the Dunstanborough range. Mr Hutton read a postscript to his paper on the 

 new Red Sandstone of the county of Durham, below the Magnesian Limestone. 



FOREIGN. 



Acts of the Geographical Society of Paris. — Sitting of Ath Dec. 1829 — M. 

 Yosy, on the point of undertaking a journey in America, expressed a desire that 

 the Society would provide him with instruments, as had been done in the case of 

 other travellers. A Bunten's barometer was accorded to him. 



M. Jomard communicated a letter from M. C. Moreau, relative to a/ac simile 

 of a map in the British Museum, executed in the 1 0th century, and explained by 

 Mr Playfair. 



M. de Vins de Peysac addressed to the Society a census of the population of 

 the Havannah in 1828, by Don Manuel Pastor. 



M. Warden communicated a statistical table of the population and revenue 

 of the province of Cercada (Department of Lima.) The same author suggested 

 that the commission should decide on several MS. maps of the coasts of Peru, 

 «ubmitted to the Society by Captain Skiddy. 



M. Jomard exhibited specimens of the work of the young Ethiopians educated 

 under his direction. 



Sitting of the \Qth Dec M. Raboteau, Professor of Geography, wrote to the 



Society to call its attention to Georama, which was threatened to be destroyed. 

 Several members were authorized to visit the establishment and report. 



Dr Reinganum of Berlin transmitted two manuscript notices by MrBuschmann, 

 entitled Description of Vera Cruz, and Index Geographicus Regnorum Mexici 

 et Guatemalan, &c. 



M. Yosy presented a Memoir by M. Auber, on the Geology of the Island of 

 Teneriffe, &c. 



Captain D'Urville deposited at the board a map of the Bay of Tasman, laid 

 down during the expedition of the Astrolabe. 



