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Proceedings of tfte Wernerian Natural History Society, Con- 

 tinued from p. 180. 



1828, April 19. — Robert Jameson, Esq. President in the 

 chair. — Count Vargas Bedemar, keeper of the mineralogical ca- 

 binet of the Crown Prince of Denmark, was elected a foreign 

 member, and the Rev. John Gibson Macvicar, A- M. was ad- 

 mitted an ordinary member. 



Mr Blackadder's communication on polar lights, illustrated 

 with drawings, was laid before the meeting. 



Mr Bald, mining-engineer, read a memoir on the fires that 

 take place in collieries, and particularly on the recent fires in 

 the collieries of Whitehill and Polton, in Mid-Lothian, and of 

 South Sauchie, in Clackmananshire. (This important paper is 

 printed in this Journal, supra, p. 101, et seq.) 



The Secretary read a notice communicated by Mr Macgilli- 

 vray, regarding a cuckoo, which had been kept in a cage since 

 it was taken from a titlark's nest, in the end of July 1827 ; and 

 the bird was communicated to the meeting. (See supra, p. 

 200.) 



Mr Falconar, Vice-President, having taken the chair, Pro- 

 fessor Jameson communicated a notice in regard to the opaline 

 wood found in New South Wales, and exhibited a magnificent 

 specimen presented to the Museum by Sir Thomas M. Bris- 

 bane, Bart. 



June 21. — David Falconar, Esq. Vice-President, in the 

 chair. — At this meeting his Excellency Count Platen, vice-lieu- 

 tenant of Norway, and Professor S. Nillson, of the University 

 of Lund, were elected foreign members. 



The Secretary read a paper by the Rev. William Scoresby of 

 Liverpool, entitled. Remarks on the Probability of reaching the 

 North Pole ; being an examination of the recent expedition un- 

 der Captain Parry, in order to the inquiry how far that experi- 

 ment affects the practicability of the enterprize. (This inte- 

 resting communication is printed in this Journal, ut supra, 

 p. 22, et seq.) 



The Society then adjourned till November. 



JULY — S£rT£MBER 1828. 1 b 



