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APPENDIX. 



fessor Jameson read a long and interesting letter, addressed to 

 him by Dr Meredith Gairdner, and dated Fort Vancouver, 31st 

 August 1833, containing the details of the observations made 

 by him during a voyage from this country to Columbia River 

 on the north-west coast of America. 



Ax^^¥',,r Dr Charles Anderson, Vice-President, in the chair. — The Se- 

 March 15. ' 



cretary read Mr William Nicol's additional observations on the 

 slructure of recent and of fossil coniferous plants ; and Mr Nicol 

 being present, exhibited both drawings and specimens of the sec- 

 tions made by him. — Dr Traill then read a notice of an im- 

 proved barometer, invented by Mr Henry Leske of Kirkwall, 

 Orkney — Professor Jameson laid before the meeting, drawings, 

 both magnified and of the natural size, of a small stickleback, ha- 

 ving four dorsal '-pines, apparently undescribed, although found in 

 the ditches of Flope Park, where it was first detected by Mr Stark. 



March 29. David Falconar, Esq. formerly Vice-President, in the chair. 

 — The Secretary read Mr Mark Watt's observations on the at- 

 tractive and repulsive powers of light as exhibited upon metals 

 when in a state of galvanic action ; and Mr Watt exhibited 

 his apparatus, and described its mode of action — The Secre- 

 tary next read an account of the strata found in excavating 

 Hartlepool Docks, communicated bj^ Mr James Milne, architect, 



resident engineer there Mr George Stevens laid before the 



meeting a suite of polished specimens of the porphyry and syen- 

 ite of the great quarries at Elfdalen in Dalecarlia, with outline 

 sketches of vases and other ornaments there constructed of these 

 materials. 



April 12. Professor Jameson, President, in the chair — .The Secretary 

 read a letter from Mr J. F. Swan of Douglas, Isle of Man, ad- 

 dressed to Principal Baird, giving a geological account of the 

 spot where the fossil elk now in the University Museum was 



