1789. 
June 15. 
Defcription of 
a ftone found at 
Coilsfield. 
June 29. 
General Meet- 
ing. 
July 3. 
M. Monnet on 
the formation 
of minerals. 
July 20. 
Dr Anderfon 
on the laws re- 
{pecting debt- 
ors. 
Nov. 2. 
Dr Guthrie on 
the climate of 
Roflia. 
Nov. 30. 
General Meet- 
ing. 
6 HISTORY of the SOCIETY. 
A pescrirTIon and Drawing of a Stone found at Coilsfield 
in Ayrfhire, was communicated by Colonel Monrcomery of 
Coilsfield. 
Tue ftone here referred to was found in digging a gravel-pit 
at Coilsfield, and under it an urn, of earthen ware, full of bones, 
not calcined, but broken down into fmall fragments, fo that 
they refembled thofe found in the rock of Gibraltar. The 
{tone is reprefented of an irregular figure, about five feet in: 
length and two and a half in breadth. On the furface of it 
are traced, near one end, fix concentric circles, at equal diftances 
from one another ; the diameter of the largeft is about eighteen 
inches. The other lines traced on the ftone are fo very irre- 
gular, that no conjecture can be formed of what they were in- 
tended to exprefs. 
A GENERAL Meeting of the Royal Society was held for the 
election of Members. [See Appendix to the Hiftory of the 
Society, Vol. Il.] 
Phyf. Cl. Dr Waker read an Effay on the Formation of 
Minerals by M. Monnet. 
od 
Lit. Cl. Dr ANDERSON read a paper, entitled, Hints for the 
Improvement of the Laws in Scotland refpecting Debtors. 
Phyf. Cl. An Effay on the, Climate of Ruffia by Dr Mar- 
tHew GurTurie of St Peterfburg, was communicated. [See 
Vol. If. No. XV. Phyf. Ci.] 
A GENERAL Meeting of the Royal Society was held for the 
elelion of Office bearers. [See Appendix to the Hiftory of 
the Society, Vol. Il.] 
Phyf. 
