PROCEEDINGS 



OF THB 



ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. 



1839-40. No. 16. 



Monday, 2d December 1839. 

 Sir T. M. BRISBANE, Bart., President, in the Chair. 



The following Donations were presented : — 



Outlines of Human Physiology. By William Pulteney Alison, 



M. D., F. R. S. E By the Author. 



Two Essays. I. On the Nature of the Boetian Numerical Con- 

 tractions. II. Notes on Early Calendars. By James Orchard 



Halliwell, Esq. of Jesns College, Cambridge. — By the Author. 

 Remarks on the Classification of the different branches of Human 



Knowledge. By .1. W. Lubbock, Esq., F. R. S By the Author. 



An Elementary Treatise on the Tides. By J. W. Lubbock, Esq., 



F. R. S. — By the Author. 

 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London for the 



year 1838. Part 2 By the Royal Society. 



Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Seances de I'Academie Royale 



des Sciences, 1839. P"^ Semestre. Nos. 13-25. 2^ Semestre. 



Nos. 1-19. — By the Academy. 

 Tijdschrift voor Natuurlijke Geschiedenis en Physiologie. Uitge- 



geven door J. Van Der Hoeven, en W. H. De Vriese, M.D. 



Deel vi. St. 1, 2, 3. — By the Editors. 

 Proceedings of the Geological Society of London. Vol. iii. Noi. 



60, 61, &2.—By the Society. 



