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See the mountains kiss high Heaven, 

 And the waves clasp one another ; 

 No sister Hower would be forgiven 

 If it disdained its brother. 



And the sunlight clasps the earth, 

 And the moonbeams kiss the sea ; 

 What are all these kissings worth 

 If thou kiss not me V 



11th December, 1896. 



Mr James Barboue, V.-P., in the chair. 



Dominions and Exchanges. — The Secretary laid the following 

 on the table : — Transactions of the Canadian Institute ; Variations 

 of Latitude in New York City (from the New York Academy of 

 Sciences) ; Bulletin of the G-eological Institution of the University 

 of Upsala, 1895 ; Proceedings of the Natural Science Association 

 of Staten Island; Ti'ansactious of the Stirling Natural History 

 and ArchcTeological Society; The Bow-Pullers of Antiquity, by 

 Edward S. Morse (from the Essex Institute, Salem, Massachu- 

 setts) ; Bagnall's Flora of Warwickshire (presented by Mr George 

 F. Scott-Elliot). 



Exhibits. — Mr S. Arnott, Kirkbean, exhibited two celts found 

 at Kells, Southwick, and a shilling, the first coined in Massa- 

 chusetts, in 1746. 



Communications. 

 I. — Antiquities of Buittle. By Eev. R. F. Takbet, B.D. 



In noticing its topography the Rev. Mr Tarbet mentioned 

 that Heston Island, the Isle Rathan of '' The Raiders," is daily 

 connected with the parish by a neck of land when the tide recedes ; 

 and from this periodical connection he was for some time in doubt 

 whether it was within his spiritual jurisdiction. He ventured to 

 call on the one family who reside on the island, thinking they 

 might know who was their spiritual father, but he was no wiser : 

 they told him he was the first minister who had called on them. 



