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ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH.— Their Proceedings 

 for Session 1868-9. 



Mr. MARTIN SIMPSON.— Eight Reports of the West Riding 

 Geological and Polytechnic Society. 



Mr. JOHN STRATFORD.— Fine Specimen of Copper Ore from 

 Pomeron, near Cadiz. 



SWEDISH CONSUL, London.— From the Universite Royal 

 de Norvege a Christiana ; Sars's Work on the Living Crinoidea ; 

 Monrad's History of Philosophy ; and three other works. 



Mr. J. TAYLOR.— Manuscript Sermon by the Late Rev. F. S. 

 Pope, preached at Whitby, on the death of Dr. Bateman. 



Mr. G. M. TWEDDELL,Stokesley.— The Works of Emmerson, 

 the Mathematician, in 4 vols. 



Professor WILLIAMSON. — His paper on the " Zamia Gigas," 

 from the Linnesan Transactions. — The Professor remarks that the 

 rich Geological district which he had visited, known as the York- 

 shire coast, has not furnished a more interesting subject for 

 investigation than the Zamia Gigas, the frond of the plant being 

 first figured in Young & Bird's Geological Survey. He then 

 speaks of having formerly examined specimens of this fossil in 

 the collections of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, of the lato 

 Dr. Murray and Mr. Beane, of Scarborough, and of Mr. Ripley, 

 of Whitby, along with " two invaluable specimens " belonging to 

 the Whitby Philosophical Society ; "the Council of which Society," 

 he adds, " not only allowed me the use of them, but with praise- 

 worthy liberality, permitted me to exercise my chisel upon them 

 for the purpose of making out some obscure points in their 

 structure ; a permission which led to important results." The 

 plates accompanying this valuable paper, not only exhibit the 

 plant entire, with its straight imbricated stem and bushy head, 

 like a diminutive palm tree, but sections also of the several parts 

 under certain conditions of their growth. 



Dr. WOOD. — 3 Specimens of the New Zealand Vegetable 

 Caterpillar. Tipo, or Maori Devil. 



WEST RIDING GEOLOGICAL AND POLYTECHNIC 

 SOCIETY, through Rev. C. MIDDLETON.— 18 Numbers of 

 their Proceedings. 



