TWELFTH MEETING, 



ROYAL INSTITUTION, April 7<A, 1845, 



JOS. DICKINSON, Esq., M.D, Vice President, in 

 the Chair. 



Dr. Inman exhibited some specimens of bones found at 

 the Submarine Forest at Leasowe. They consisted of the 

 ribs, vertebrae, &c, of a pony ; and were found covered 

 with a stratum of bog and grass two feet deep. 



Mr. Gray exhibited an interesting fossil specimen, 

 (apparently a Fucoid,) found in the old red sandstone in 

 the South of Scotland. 



THE PAPER FOR THE EVENING WAS, 



AN ACCOUNT OF SOME ZOOLOGICAL RESEARCHES, MADE IN 



THE BRITISH SEAS, DURING THE LAST SUMMER 



By Mr. Mc. Andrew. 



The locality, which principally occupied me during last 

 summer, was Loch Fyne and the west coast of Arran, 

 though one of my excursions extended among the Hebrides 

 as far as Stornaway, and another consisted of a short cruise 

 round Anglesea, where I had the advantage of being ac- 

 companied by Professor Edward Forbes. I may here re- 

 mark on the wide field for new discoveries in natural history, 

 which is still open to us almost at our own door, from the 

 circumstance of the British seas having been, as yet, but 

 very partially explored. No district of equal extent had 

 probably been so well examined as the Clyde, where Mr. 

 Smith, of Jordan Hill, Captain Brown, Professor Forbes, 

 and many others, had gone before me, making it the scene 

 of their labours; yet even there I have been fortunate 



