PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. 



1840. No. 17. 



Monday, VJth February 1840. 

 Dr HOPE, V. P. in the Chair. 



The following Candidates were elected Fellows of the So- 

 ciety : — 



John Cockburn, Esq. 

 Sir William Scott, Bart. 

 Rev. C. H. Terrot. 



The following Donations were presented : — 

 Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Seances de 1' Academic des 



Sciences, 1839. 2* Semestre, Nos. 23, 24, 25, 26, and 27. 



1840. F"" Semestre, Nos. 1, 2, 3 — By the Academy. 

 Quarterly Journal of the Statistical Society of London. Vol. ii. 



Part 6. January 1840. — By the Society. 

 Bulletin de la Societe de Geographie. 2'"« Series. Tome xi — 



By the Society. 

 Flora Batava. Part 118. — By the King of Holland. 



The following Communications were read : — 



1. On the Cosmogony described in the Sixth Eclogue of Virgil, 

 and on its relation to the theories of. Modem Greology. 

 By the Venerable Archdeacon Williams. 



