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the unity of structure iu the animal kingdom, and on congenital 

 anomalies, including hermaphrodites ; with remarks on embryo- 

 logy, as facilitating animal nomenclature, classification, and the 

 study of comparative anatomy ; illustrating the whole by dia- 

 grams. 



1837. Dr T. S. Traill, Vice-President, in the chair. — It was inti- 



April 8. , . . 



mated that the Council had passed a resolution, directing the 



Secretary to write to the Secretaries of the Royal Society of 

 Edinburgh, and the Highland and Agricultural Society, suggest- 

 ing the importance of co-operation on the part of the principal 

 scientific associations, and especially of these societies, in an ap- 

 plication to Government for the resumption of the trigonome- 

 trical survey of Scotland The Assistant-Secretary read the 



first part of Captain Mackenzie's account of his overland journey 



from India Mr Smith of Jordanhill read an account of some 



extraordinary optical phenomena depending on atmospheric re- 

 fraction, observed in the counties of Ayr and Stirling — Mr 

 Macgillivray then read a paper on the geological relations, and 

 animal and vegetable productions, of the Cromarty Frith, with 

 observations relative to the estuaries and sea-lochs of Scotland. 



April 21. The following Memorial, prepared by the Council and Messrs 

 Smith of Jordanhill and J. Stuart Menteath jun. of Closeburn, 

 was read and approved of. 



" Unto the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of 

 His Majesty's Treasury, the Humble Memorial of the 

 President and Members of the Wernerian Natural His- 

 tory Society of Edinburgh ; 



" Sheweth, 

 " That while your Memorialists view, with the utmost satis- 

 faction, the progress which has been made in the noble Ordnance 

 Surveys of England and Ireland, and are fully alive to the im- 



