■^^4 Scientific Intelligence. 



Committee to experiment with Mr Henry's band upon a more perfect ma- 

 chine and report. 



3. The Committee on Mr Forrester's Orrery gave in their report, 

 which was highly favourable. 



4. The Committee on Mr Avtoun's and Mr Stevenson's Lighthouse 

 Machinery not being ready to report, the Committee was continued. 



• 5. The Committee on Prizes to be awarded next month was continued. 



6. James L'Amy, Esq. and Robert Forsyth, Esq. were elected Vice- 

 Presidents. 



The General Meeting of the Society for awarding the Prizes to success- 

 ful candidates was appointed to; be held on the 17th June. 



2. Northern Inverness Instilution. 



April 2^, 1829. — The concluding meeting for the season of this Society, 

 was held in their Museum here on the evening of Friday last, — Neil Mac- 

 lean, Esq. Civil Engineer, in the chair. After the usual routine business, 

 and the letters received during the previous month had been read, a com- 

 munication was laid before the meeting from Wm. Mackintosh, Esq. of 

 Millbank, accompanied by a curious piece of carved wood, dug up in a moss 

 in Badenoch, some years ago, with drawings of its appendages when found, 

 which have since been lost. 



A notice from Charles Cramer, Esq. Correspondent of the Society, of an 

 Egyptian Mummy, recently opened in London, was next read, and portions 

 of the linen folds in which the body was enveloped, were laid on the table. 



The other donations presented at this meeting, consisted of an Indian 

 Creece from a lady; copies of the St James's Chronicle published in 1764-65, 

 found in Kilravock Castle, from Mr Macarthur, writer, Nairn ; and a beau- 

 tiful series, 22 in number, of flexible Corallines from the shores of the 

 Frith of Forth, collected and named by the donor, John Coldstream, Esq. 

 M.D. the Society's Correspondent at Leith. 



The Essay appointed for this meeting, and with the reading of which 

 the business closed, was by Mr Anderson, the General Secretary, being the 

 first of a series of papers on the Elements of Geology. It treated of the 

 uses and objects of the science, its principles of classification, and con- 

 cluded with a view of the great classes of rocky and other deposits compos- 

 ing the upper portions or crust of the earth. The subject was illustrated 

 by numerous charts and specimens. 



Mr Anderson will read the rest of these papers in the course of the 

 summer. 



Art. XXIV.— scientific INTELLIGENCE. 



r. NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. 



ASTRONOMY. 



1. Comparison of Observations on the Solar Eclipse of November 29th 

 1826. By Mr George Innes, Aberdeen. — Having had early communi- 

 cations of the observations of the Solar Eclipse of the 29th November 1826, 

 which were made in Great Britain and Ireland, I made the necessary calcula- 

 tions, in order to deduce the longitude of each of the places where the obser- 



