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Monday, 6th March 18^7. 



Sir THOMAS M. BRISBANE, Bart., President, in the 

 Chair. 



The following Donations were jjresented : 



The Juurnal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal for August 1836. — 

 B// the Hociely. 



Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. — Vol. ii. Part 1. 

 By the Society. 



Statuti dell' Accademia di Palermo. — By the Academy. 



De Redigeiidis ad unicam seriem comparabilera Meteorologicis 

 ubique factis observationibus conveiitio proposita, et Tabulae 

 supputatae, ab equite Nicolao Cacciatore, Regii Observatorii 

 PaiKtrniitaui Dircctore. 



Considerations regarding the Edinburgh, Leitb, and Newhaven 

 Railway. By Patrick Neill, LL. D., F. R. S. R. — By the 

 Author. 



Specimen of a Treatise on the Differential Calculus or Fluxions ; 

 founded on an original principle derived from the Ancient 

 Geometry. By the Rev. John Forbes, Minister of St Paul's, 

 Glasgow. — By the Author, 



The Quarterly Journal of Agriculture ; and the Prize Essays and 

 Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scot- 

 land. No. 36, March 1837 By the Society. 



Transactions of the Society instituted at London for the Encourage- 

 ment of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce. Vol. li. Part 1. 

 — By the Society. 



Two Essays on the Geography of Ancient Asia; intended partly 

 to illustrate t^he Campaigns of Alexander, and the Anabasis of 

 Xenophon. By the Rev. John Williams, Vicar of Lampeter, 

 and Rector of the Edinburgh Academy By the Author. 



The following communications were read : — 



L On the power of the Periosteum to form new bone. By 

 Professor Syine. 



The object of the author in this paper is to state certain obser- 

 vations and experiments by which he considers it to be clearly es- 

 tablished, that the periosteal membrane, covering the bones, has the 



