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Monday, Aith January 1847- 



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

 Chair. 



The following Communications were read : — 



1. On the presumed long-continued Presence of Arsenic in 



the Human Stomach. By Dr Gregory. 



2. Notes on the Superficial Strata of the Neighbourhood of 



Edinburgh. By Dr Fleming. (Commenced.) 



The following Gentlemen were duly elected Ordinary Fel- 

 lows : — 



Geoege Makgill, Esq. of Kembach. 



David Gray, Esq., M.A., Professor of Natural Philosophy, 

 Marischal College, Aberdeen. 



The following Donations to the Library were announced : — 



Journal of Agriculture and Transactions of the Highland and Agri- 

 cultural Society, for Januai'y. — By the Society. 



Inquiry into some points of the Sanatory State of Edinburgh. By 

 James Stark, M.D. 



Report of the Mortality of Edinburgh and Leith for the Six Months, 

 June to November 1846. By James Stark, M.D. — By the 

 Author. 



Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Nos. 27, 28, 

 and 29. 



Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Vol. XX., 

 Part 1. — By the Society. 



Twenty-sixth Report of the Council of the Leeds Philosophical and 

 Literary Society at the Close of the Session 1845-46. — By the 

 Society. 



Report of the Proceedings in the Cambridge Observatory Relative to 

 the New Planet. By Professor J. Challis. — By the Vice- 

 Chancellor of the University. 



Observations on the General and Medical Management of Indian 

 Jails ; and on the Treatment of some of the Principal Dis- 

 eases which Infest them. By James Hutchinson, Esq., Sur- 

 geon on the Bengal Establishment, &c. —By the Author. 



