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HISTORT of the SOCIETT. 



1787. 



Augufl 6, 

 New tpecies of 

 cochineal. 



Count it Win- 



difchgratz's 



problem. 



Nov. 5. 

 Mr Locheid on 

 the nat. hift. of 

 Madeira. 



Nov. 19. 

 Mr Dalzel on 

 the Greek 2. 



Nov. 16. 



General Meet- 

 ing. 



Dec. 3. 

 Dr Hotton's 

 unfwer) to M. 

 de Luc. 



Pbvf. CI. Dr James Anderson laid before the Society a 

 fpecimen of a new fpecies of cochineal, lately difcovered on the 

 coaft of Coromandel by James Anderson, M. D. Phyfician- 

 general at Madrafs. 



At the fame Meeting, Mr Commiflioner Smith acquaint- 

 ed the Society, that the Count de Windischgratz had 

 tranfmitted to him three Diflertations, offered as folutions of 

 his Problem, [See Tranfadlions, Vol. I. Hift. of the Soc. p. 37. 

 & 45.] and had defired the judgment of the Society upon their 

 merits. The Society referred the confideration of thefe papers 

 to Mr Smith, Mr Henry Mackenzie of the Exchequer, and 

 Mr William Craig, Advocate, as a Committee to perufe and 

 confider them, and to report their opinion to the Society at a 

 fubfequent Meeting. 



Phyf. CI. Dr Walker, Profeflbr of Natural Hiftory, read 

 part of a DifTertation, written by Mr Lochead, on the Natural 

 Hiftory of Madeira. 



Lit. CI. Mr Dalzel read the continuation of his Dif- 

 feriation on certain Analogies obferved by the Greeks in the 

 ufe of their Letters ; and particularly of the Letter 2. [See 

 fupra, Dec. 19. 1785.] 



A general Meeting of the Royal Society was held for the 

 eledion of General Office-bearers for the enfuing year ; when 

 all thofe of the preceding year were re-eledled. 



Phyf. CI. Dr James Hutton read Anfwers by him to the 

 Objeflions of M. de Luc, with regard to his Theory of Rain, 

 (publilhed in Tranfadions, Vol. 1. No. II. Phyf. CI.) Thefe 

 Anfwers are printed in this volume. [No. VIII. Phyf. CI.'] 



Lit. 



