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Proceedings of the Wernerlan Natural History Society Con- 

 tinued from p. 182. 



1827, Dec, 15.— G. A. W. Arnott, Esq. V. P. in the chair. 

 —The Secretary read an account of a peculiar species of Por- " 

 pesse (Delphinus Peronii ?), which abounds off the coast of 

 Van Dieman''s Land ; communicated by the Rev. John Mac- 

 garvie, a. m. The next paper was an account of the Climate 

 and of the Geology of the Harris Islands ; by Mr William 

 Macgillivray, who resided there for several years. (For inte- 

 resting extracts from this paper, see last Number of this Jour- 

 nal, supra, p. 140, et seq.) At the same meeting there was 

 read an account of an Optical Illusion or Mirage, called the 

 Fmry Islands, frequently seen off the north coast of Ireland, 

 near the Skerry Islands of Antrim ; communicated by Mr Sa- 

 muel Thomas Greig. And also, a notice from Lieutenant-Ge- 

 neral the Honourable Sir Charles Colvile, regarding a fine spe- 

 cimen of Hindoo sculpture, presented to the University Mu- 

 seum by the General. The specimen was exhibited to the 

 meeting. It represents the goddess Bhowanee, with her usual 

 attendants. It was found among the ruins of a Brahminical 

 temple in the ancient city of Chandwartie, and apparently be- 

 longs to a period corresponding to the beginning of the 12th cen- 

 tury of our era. 



1828, Jan. 12. — David Falconar, Esq. V. P. in the chair. 

 — The Secretary read an account of the habits of a specimen of 

 the Siren lacertina, which has been kept alive at Canonmills, 

 near Edinburgh, for more than two years past. (This paper is 

 printed in the present number of this Journal, p. 346, et seq.) 

 At the same meeting was read a paper by the Rev. John Mac- 

 garvie, on the habits of the large brown Hornet of New South 

 Wales, with a reference to instinct, and particularly illustrative 

 of its mode of forming its hexagonal cells. (This paper is like- 

 wise printed in the present Number, p. 237, &c.) 



Professor Jameson then exhibited some of the birds collected 

 by Captfun Parry during his last voyage to the Arctic Regions, 

 two of them (a little auk and a guillemot) killed beyond north 

 latitude 81°; and specimens of the rocks of Ross Island, chiefly 

 gneiss, the most northern known land of the globe. 



