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Monday, 15th February. 

 Dr hope, V. P. in the Chair. 



The following Donations were presented : 



The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for 

 the year 1836. — Presented by the American Philosophical So- 

 ciety. 



Historical Account of Bills of Mortality, and the Probability of 

 Human Life in Glasgow and other large Towns. By James 

 Cleland, LL.D. &c. &c By the Author. 



Proceedings of the Geological Society of London. No. 42 — By 

 the Society. 



Description of a Bronze or Cast-iron Columnal Light-House, with 

 refei-ence to a model of one-fom-th the full size, designed for 

 the Wolf Rock, situated between the Island of ScUly and the 

 Land's-End. By Captain Samuel Brown, R. N — By the Au- 

 thor. 



Report respecting the Construction of Low-water Piers on the 

 North and South Shores of the Frith of Forth, for the Fife 

 and Mid-Lothian Ferries. — By James Anderson^ Civil-Engi' 

 neer. 



Report on the present state of Leith Harbour, and the practicabi- 

 lity of rendering available its "Wet Docks, by means of a 

 Deep-water Entrance, and a communicating Dock or Ship 

 Canal. By James Anderson, Civil-Enginner. — By the Au- 

 thor. 



The award of the Keith Prize to Professor Forbes having 

 been announced by the Council on the 18th January, the me- 

 dal was presented by the Vice-President, accompanied by an 

 address to the following effect.* 



The prize founded by our late estimable associate Mr Keith, 

 whose ingenious contrivances for sclf-refiisterinfj thermometers 

 and barometers are recorded in our Transactions, is, by tlie re- 

 gulation of his Trustees, to be adjudged biennially for the most 

 important discovery communicated to the Royal Society, or in 

 the event of such being wanting, for the best paper which shall 

 have been presented to the Society in the space of two years on 



• Printed bv order of the Council. 



