392 Proceedings of the Wernerian Society. 



1832, March 10. — David Falconar, Esq. formerly V. P. 

 in the chair. Professor Jameson gave an account of the very 

 interesting collection of fossil bones received by him from 

 Wellington Valley in New Holland, and communicated the re- 

 sult of an examination of these bones by Baron Cuvier, for 

 whose inspection they had been sent to Paris. (See the present 

 number of this Journal, p. 301, et seq.) The Professor also com- 

 municated an analysis of a peculiar product of a recent eruption 

 of Vesuvius, made by Dr William Gregory, lecturer on che- 

 mistry. — The Secretary read a notice by Mr Macadam of Ply- 

 mouth Dock, regarding the very indestructible quality of the 

 timber of the Zygophylhim arhoreum of Carthagena. A stuff- 

 ed specimen of the Gazelle of Africa was exhibited ; and Pro- 

 fessor Jameson mentioned that this specimen had died at the 

 seat of Lord Rothes in Fifeshire, where two or three gazelles 

 still survived, having been sent to his Lordship from Tripoli. 

 A parrot and a humming-bird from Terra del Fuego were also 

 exhibited, proving that Bougainville was correct when he re- 

 ported, in his Voyage, that birds of these tribes were to be found 

 in that inhospitable climate, though his accuracy had been im- 

 pugned. 



NEW PUBLICATIONS. 



1. Fauna Boreali-Americana ; or the Zoology of the Northern Parts 

 of British America. Part Second — The Birds. By Wil- 

 liam SwAiNsoN, Esq. F. R. S., F, L. S., and John Richard- 

 son, M. D., F. R. S., F. L. S. 4to. Murray, London, 1831. 



The numerous and varied objects in the different depart- 

 ments of Natural History, collected by the last overland Expe- 

 dition to the Polar Sea, under Captain Sir John Franklin^s 

 command, could not be fully described or worthily illustrated 

 within the limits of an ordinary Appendix ; and hence the ne- 

 cessity arose of devoting separate works to the more complete 

 elucidation, both of the zoological and botanical collections of 

 that important journey. Two volumes have already appeared 

 on Zoology, under the title of Fauna Boreali Americana. Of 

 these, the. first, written solely by Dr Richardson,, contains tlie 



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