180 Proceedings qftlie Werner ian Natural History Society. 



of this Journal, p. 84, et seq.] — Mr Robert Bald, mining engi- 

 neer, read Observations on the Coal-field and accompanying 

 Strata in the vicinity of Dalkeith in Mid-Lothian, and exhibited 

 a section of that coal-field. — [This interesting communication is 

 printed in the present Number, p. 115. to p. 122.] — The Rev. 

 Dr David Scot of Corstorphine, then read an essay on the Se- 

 mamith of Solomon, Prov. xxx. 25., commonly translated spider, 

 but which he shewed to be a species of lizard. — [This paper is 

 also- printed in the present Number, p. 30, et seq.'\ — At this meet- 

 ing, Mr James Alexander Vintress exhibited a new Stereometer, 

 or instrument for ascertaining the specific gravity of powders, in- 

 vented by him. 



April 21. — The President in the Chair. — The Secretary 

 read an account of interesting Works of Art lately discovered in 

 the ruins of Selinus, by two English architects, Messrs Harris 

 and Angel ; communicated by Dr Traill of Liverpool. — [This 

 communication will be found in the preceding Volume of this 

 Journal, p. 165, et seq.'\ — Likewise a notice by James Wilson, 

 Esq. regarding a living specimen of the Puma, or American 

 Lion, lately presented to Professor Jameson. The Rev. Dr 

 Scot then read a memoir on the " Hyssop"" of the Sacred 

 Writings. — Dr R. E. Grant exhibited several living speci- 

 mens of the Virgularia juncea of Lamarck, from deep places 

 in the Frith of Forth, and made some remarks on the struc- 

 ture of this zoophyte. Professor Jameson then exhibited and 

 described a specimen of the Ibis sacra of Africa, brought home 

 by Major Denham ; the horns of a Wapiti Deer, brought 

 from California by Captain Ferguson ; a Balsa, or boat or float, 

 made of two bundles of straw or reeds, used in Peru for cross- 

 ing rivers, or passing through the surf on the coast ; and a spe- 

 cimen of the Peccari Hog, presented to the College Museum by 

 Mr Shenley. 



May 19. — Rev. Dr Buunton, V. P. in the Chair — At this 

 meeting the following communications were read. 1. An ac- 

 count of experiments on the Magnetic Influences of the Heat 

 produced by the solar rays, by Mark Watt, Esq. — [Preceding 

 Volume of this Journal, p. 170. et seq.] 2. Notice of a remark- 

 able marine animal, probably of the cetaceous tribe, observed in 

 the Mozambique Channel, communicated by Dr Traill of Liver- 



