PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. 



1836. No. 9. 



Monday, '21 .st March 1836. 

 Rev. Dk. CHALMERS, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The following gentlemen were duly elected Ordinary Fellows 

 of the Society : 



1. David Rhind, Esq. 



2. James Anderson, Esq. 



M. Dulong, formerly Perpetual Secretary of the Royal 

 Institute of France, was elected an Honorary Mem- 

 ber of the Society, in room of M. Stromeyer, of Got- 

 tingen, deceased. 



The following Donations were presented : 



The Quai-terly Journal of Agriculture ; and the Prize Essays and 

 Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scot- 

 land. No. 31. for March 1836. — From tJte Highland Society. 



Catalogue of Recent Shells in the Cabinet of John C. Jay, M. D., 

 Member of the Lyceum of Natural History, New York. — 

 From the Author. 



Thirteenth Report of the Whitby Literary and Philosophical So- 

 ciety, presented at the Annual Meeting, October 31. 1833 — 

 From the Society. 



The British and Foreign Medical Review, or Quarterly Journal of 

 Practical Medicine and Surgery. Edited by John Forbes, 

 M. D., F. R. S., and John Conolly, M. D. ; January 1836 

 No. 1 — ^From the Editors. 



