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ed towards the extremity ; the toes ciliated. The most obvious 

 character seems to be the very flat nose or snout, which resem- 

 bles that of the Chrysochloris capensis. The Sorex remifer was 

 detected many years ago in Norfolkshire by Dr Hooker, and was 

 figured by the late Mr Sowerby in his Miscellany, under the 

 name of Sorex ciliatus ; but this is quoted in Dr Fleming's 

 work on British Animals, as a synonime of S. fodiens. 



TWENTY-SEVENTH SESSION. 



Dec 14 ^^ Charles Anderson, Vice-President, in the chair. — Mr 

 Nicol's observations on the structure of recent and fossil co- 

 niferous trees were read, and illustrated by an extensive suite 

 of specimens. — Dr Hibbertthen exhibited a splendid fossil tooth, 

 which he and Mr Witham had procured at a newly opened bed 

 in the limestone quarries at Burdiehouse, three miles south of 

 Edinburgh. The Doctor described the interesting relic as the 

 tooth of a saurian animal. Professor Jameson remarked that the 

 tooth differed from those of the Gavial, Ichthyosaurus, Plesio- 

 saurus, and such other saurians as he had examined, and said 

 (for reasons which he adduced) he entertained little doubt that 

 the sp endid tooth now exhibited would turn out to belong to an 

 extinct kind of fish. He added, he had a faint recollection of a 

 published figure of a similar fossil tooth, found in the coal-for- 

 mation in the west of Scotland. — Professor Jameson then exhi- 

 bited a fossil tooth found in red sandstone, in Berwickshire, by 

 the Right Honourable Lord Greenock ; and assigned reasons for 

 regarding it as the tooth of a fish. 



T^^^^ia Professor Graham, formerly Vice-President, in the chair Dr 



Traill read a description of a specimen of the Squalus cornu- 

 bicus, captured near Kirkwall in Orkney last autumn, and also 

 an account of the different species of shark which occur in the 

 Orkney seas ; and he exhibited a specimen of the angel-fish 

 (Squalus squatina), which he had procured during his late visit 

 to the Orkneys. — The Secretary read a notice regarding a pe- 



