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accessions being made to the Museum. Besides those belonging to 

 the class of Antiquities, books, and works of art, were numerous 

 contributions in the department of Natural History, from Mr. 

 Douglas, Mr. Dunlop, Astronomer at Paramata, (through Sir T. M. 

 Brisbane, Bart.) from Mr. J. Blacket, Sidney, New South Wales. 



Contributions to the Zoological department, several of them of 

 great interest, were received from Dr. F. Douglas, and from Messrs. 

 Wilkie, Beckwith, Yule, Smith, Black, Lockie, Stevenson, &c., &c. 

 As the true value of the Museum must always lie in its collection 

 of objects having a local interest, and as all contributions tending to 

 illustrate the Natural History of the district must be deserving of 

 especial attention, such are always received with gratitude. 



It was announced to the meeting by Sir Thomas Brisbane, that 

 Mr. Fergusson of Kelso had voluntered to keep a complete series of 

 Meteorological observations at Kelso, for behoof of the Society, 

 provided he were furnished with the necessary instruments; and 

 that he (Sir Thomas Brisbane) had mentioned this to the Duke of 

 Roxburgh, who had at once declared his willingness to supply these 

 instruments to the Society at his own expense. Sir Thomas also 

 made known his own intention of presenting an Astronomical Clock, 

 to be placed in the new building when completed. 



The Museum, and. all that is connected with it, is now becoming 

 an affair highly creditable to the district. The new building is in 

 an advanced state, and its accommodation will be ample and appro- 

 priate. The friends of the Institution, at home and abroad, are 

 daily becoming more numerous ; its list of members is at present 

 more full than at any time since its commencement : and it is re- 

 ceiving valuable donations from nearly every quarter of the globe. 



The thanks of the Society were voted to the office-bearers for the 

 past year ; and particularly to Dr. Wilson, the secretary, and to 

 Mr. Heckford the conservator of specimens for the Zoological depart- 

 ment of the Museum. 



ROYAL PHYSICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. 



In the notice of Mr. E. Forbes's communication, p. 355, he is 

 represented as maintaining that the cilia of the Beroe are not or- 

 gans of motion. We have since learnt that the remarks which he 

 made on this subject had a very different purport, namtly, that the 

 motions of the cilia were not sufficient of themselves to account for 

 the movements of the animal, seeing that frequently when the Beroe 

 or Cydippe lay still at the bottom of the vessel in which it was placed 

 the cilia were in active motion. 



