CONTENTS 



OF 



VOLUME NINTH. ^ . ki»J^ 



PART FIRST. 



Page 



I. On the Parallel Roads of Lochaber. By Thomas 



Lauder Dick, Esq. F. R. S. Edin. - 1 



II. On the Poisonous Fishes of the Caribbee Islands. 



By William Ferguson, M. D. F. R. S. Edin. 65 



III. Account of a Mineral from Orkney. By Thomas 



Stewart Traill, M. D. F. R. S. Edin. - 81 



IV. Extract from Inspection-Report of the Island of Tri- 



nidad, made in the Year 1 816, by the Inspector 

 of Hospitals, in conjunction with the Quarter- 

 Master General and Chief Engineer for the Wind- 

 ward and Leeward Colonies of the West Indies. 

 By William Ferguson, M. D. F. R. S. Edin. 93 



V. Memoir on the Repeating Reflecting Circle. By Ma- 



jor-General Sir Thomas Brisbane, C. B. F. R. S. 

 Edin. and Corresponding Member of the Aca- 

 demy of Sciences, - - 97 



VI. Description of a Fossil Tree found in a Quarry at 



Nites-hill, the Property of Colonel Dunlop of 

 Househill. By the Reverend Patrick Brewster, 

 one of the Ministers of the Abbey Church, Paisley, 103 



VII. 



