M PREFACE. 



the Members ; and they confidently expect that all future pub- 

 lications of the Society will in like manner be produced without 

 any additional cost to the Members. 



The present volume contains a number of extremely valua- 

 ble papers, read at the meetings of the Society, upon a variety 

 of interesting subjects, and illustrated by numerous plates : but 

 it must be borne in mind, that the Society as a body, does not, 

 by publishing them, consider itself as offering an opinion re- 

 specting any theories or conclusions advanced in or deduced 

 from them. Their respective authors alone must be considered 

 as responsible for them ; and their correctness or fallacy left to 

 be confirmed or refuted by future investigations. 



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