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this country till the age of Charles T., anrf that they did nof 

 become general before the beg'mning of tlie last century. 

 The sashes were originally constructed of very thick timber, 

 and the joinings were left in square pieces in order to add 

 10 their strength, as it was then believed. 



As an appendage to these views, the design of Melk- 

 house-street, a curious old rustic building, entirely of tim- 

 ber, near Ashford, Kent, was exhibited to the society. 

 'J'hc drawing was fexecuted by the late F. Grose, and pre- 

 sented considerable variety in its architectural ornaments. 

 The design was made in 1 7C0, and has not yet been en- 

 graved. 



WERNERIAN NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



At the meeiine: of this society, on Saturday the 13th of 

 January, the Rev. Dr. Macknight read a mineralogical ac- 

 count of Ben Ledi, and the environs of Loch Ketterin. 

 The description of the rocks in that district (which consist 

 of mica- slate and clay-slate, with an overlying conglo- 

 merate, formed at a lower level from the debris of primi- 

 tive mountains) tended, in the author's opinion, to illus- 

 trate one branch of the Wernerian doctrine respecting the 

 order of formations in the mineral kingdom. It alL>o ap- 

 peared, in confirmation of another principle in the Geo- 

 gnosy, that the direction from SVV. to NE. of the strata 

 composing the Highland mountains, corresponds to what 

 has been observed in general relative to the bearings of 

 the primitive strata in the crust of the earth. Such an 

 imiformity of direction, it would seem, could have resulted 

 only from the action of powers in nature that are slow and 

 regular in their operation; and must be referred to some 

 original law, which later discoveries render it probable 

 may be found to depend on the constitution of the terra- 

 queous globe in regard to magnetism and electricity. 



At the same meeting the secretary laid before the society 

 a communication from Mr. William Scoresby junior, of 

 Whitby, comprising a meteorological journal of three 

 Greenland voyages , with remarks on the ctrecls of the 

 weather on the barometer in Greenland, and on the diflTercnt 

 crystallizations of snow to be observed in high latitudes. 



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