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Proceedings of the Wernerian Natural History Society. Con- 

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1828, Feb. 9S. — Robert Jameson, Esq. President, in the 

 cliair. — The Secretary read a notice regarding a living Ocelot, 

 or Felis Pardalis, from South America, communicated by James 

 Wilson, Esq. The animal was a female, nearly of full size; 

 had been almost two years at Liverpool, and had lately been 

 transferred to the menagerie of the Zoological Society in Re- 

 gen t''s Park. 



Dr R. E. Grant then read the second part of his account of 

 the anatomy of the Perameles nasuta of New South Wales, 

 treating particularly of the organs of generation. 



March 8. — David Falconer, Esq. V. P. in the chair. — 

 The Secretary read a notice of the wasting effects of the sea, 

 which have exposed a submarine forest on the shores of Che- 

 shire, between the rivers Mersey and Dee, by Robert Stevenson, 

 Esq. civil engineer. 



Mr G. A. W. Arnott read two memoirs : 1. On the Mines 

 of the Higher Pyrenees ; % On the Marbles of the Higher Py- 

 renees. — The Secretary read a communication from the Rev. 

 John Macvicar, A. M. of St Andrew''s, describing a rare fish, 

 the Forked Hake of Pennant, which had been cast ashore near 

 St Andrew's in a storm. A drawing of the fish, made by Mr 

 Macvicar, was exhibited to the meeting. — Mr Deuchar, lectu- 

 rer on chemistry, then read a notice of keeping entire the crys-^ 

 tals of efflorescent and also of deliquescent salts, by means of 

 surrounding them with an atmosphere, formed from an essential 

 oil, such as oil of turpentine. 



March 22. — David Falconak, Esq. V. P. in the chair. — 

 The Rev. Dr Scot of Corstorphine read a paper on the great 

 fish that swallowed up Jonah, and, after three days and nights, 

 cast him out on dry land ; shewing that it could not be a whale, 

 as often supposed, but was probably a Squalus Carcharias, or 

 white shark. 



At this meeting was also read the first part of a Memoir on 

 the Lunar Compass, &c. by Mark Watt, Esq. (For an ac- 

 count of this interesting paper, see supra, p. 100. et seq.) 



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