HISTORY OF THE SOCIETY. 471 



"■' 4. Ten sovereigns, or a piece of plate of that value, for the 

 best Essay on the Botany of the Mountains of Scotland, in con- 

 nection with their Geological Structure and Composition ; with 

 specimens, and a map of the distribution of the Plants. In this 

 Essay the range of elevation, and the northern and southern 

 limits of the different species, should be attended to, and any 

 facts tending to illustrate the geographical distribution of plants 

 carefully recorded. It would also add greatly to the interest of 

 the communication if it were accompanied with a coloured Geo- 

 gnostical Map of the mountainous districts examined. — To be 

 produced against December 1837. 



" 5. Ten sovereigns, or a piece of plate of that value, for the 

 best Account of all A vertebrate Animals (with the exception 

 of thpir larvae), inhabiting the River and Frith of Forth, their 

 tributary streams, and the lakes included in the basin of the 

 Forth ; with a collection of specimens. — To be given in against 

 December 1837. 



" Communications may be addressed either to Professor 

 Jameson, the President, or to Mr Neill, Secretary of the Society, 

 Edinburgh." 



TWENTY-EIGHTH SESSION. 



David Falconar, Esq. Vice-President, in the chair Professor i834 



Jameson read a short notice, by Mr William Nicol, on the struc- ^*^^' ^^' 

 ture of some specimens of fossil wood ; and also an account of 

 the analysis of a coprolite found at Wardie, by Dr Gregory and 

 Mr Walker. The Professor likewise exhibited and described a 

 specimen of Squalus glaucus, captured last autumn near Helms- 

 dale in Sutherland. 



Professor Jameson in the chair — The Secretary read the Rev. pec 13 

 John Hodgson's account of the remains of a skeleton of a species 

 of deer found, in 1833, in diluvial sand, below the foundation 

 of the Roman wall, near Walton, in Cumberland. — The Assist- 



