196 Proceedings of the Werner Ian Society. 



ginous brown beneath, with the tail rounded at its origin, but 

 compressed towards the extremity ; the toes ciliated. The most 

 obvious character seems to be the very flat nose or snout, which 

 resembles that of the Chrysochloris capensis. The Sore^v re- 

 mifer was detected many years ago in Norfolkshire by Dr 

 Hooker, and was figured by the late Mr Sowerby in his Mis- 

 cellany, under the name of Soi^eoc ciliatus. It is. singular that 

 the animal is not mentioned in Dr Fleming's work on British 

 Animals. 



1833, Dec. 14. Dr Charles Anderson, V. P. in the chair. 

 Professor Jameson read Mr Nicol's observations on the struc- 

 ture of recent and of fossil coniferous trees, which were illus- 

 trated by an extensive suite of specimens. [This important essay 

 is printed in the present number of this Journal, p. 137, et seq.l^ 



Dr Hibbert then gave an account of the discovery of the tooth 

 of a Saurian animal in the limestone of Burdiehouse, three miles 

 south from Edinburgh. Professor Jameson remarked that this 

 tooth differed from those of the Gavial, the Ichthyosaurus, and 

 Plesiosaurus, and that data were still wanting for the exact deter- 

 mination of its true nature, whether belonging to a fish or a sau- 

 rian animal, its softness and other characters shewing that it 

 could not be referred to the mammalia. [A further notice of this 

 interesting specimen will be found supra, p. 193.] 



Professor Jameson next exhibited a fossil tooth foimd in red 

 sandstone, above the coal formation in Berwickshire, by the 

 Right Honourable Lord Greenock, and assigned reasons for re- 

 garding it as the tooth of a fish. [See a full account of this 

 curious specimen, by Dr R. E. Grant, supra, p. 38.] 



At this metting, the following gentlemen were elected office- 

 bearers of the Society for 1834 : 



President^ — Robert Jameson, Esq. 

 Vice-Presidents^ 

 Dr Gillies. W. C. Trbvelyan, Esq. 



Dr C. Anderson. Dr R. K. Greville. 



Secretary^—VAT. Neill, Esq. Paintery—P. Syme, Esq. 



Treasurer^— A. G. Ellis, Esq. Mr W. H. Townsend, AssistanL 



Librarian^ — James Wilson, Esq. 



Council. 

 Sir P. Walker, Bindon Blood, Esq. 



W. A. Cadell, Esq. Dr T. S. Traill. 



Pr;ncipal Baird. T. .T. Torrie, Esq. 



H. WiTHAM, Esq. Dr John ColDstrbam. 



