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pils, Mr James \icol of Innerleithen, procured from the roof- 

 ing slate fine specimens of Graptolites. About two miles far- 

 ther down the Tweed, in the Cadon Bank Hill, glance-coal 

 has lately been discovered associated with greywacke and 

 transition clay-slate. Lord Traquair. the proprietor of the 

 district, is endeavouring, by mining operations, to ascertain if 

 the coal occurs in such quantity as to render it available in an 

 economical point of view. INIr Xicol, who has examined this 

 new locality of glance-coal, informs us that the beds of coal, 

 which appear to follow the direction of the strata, do not ex- 

 ceed, so fcir as hitherto explored, a few inches in thickness, and 

 in some places exhibit a fibi-ous structure. Mr Kemp, lectiu-er 

 on chemistry, finds the coal to be nearly pure carbon. 



Proceedings of the Wernerian Natural History Society. 

 {Continued from Vol. xxvi. p. 429.) 



March 23. 1839 — Dr Traill, formerly V. P. in the Cliair. Mr 

 Robert J. Hay Cunningham read a paper on the Silurian System of 

 Murchison, and illustrated the same by coloured sections and nume- 

 rous specimens. Dr Traill shewed to the meeting some of the dark- 

 coloured Sand found among Teas imported from China last season, 

 and which he had found to be raanganesian iron-sand, apparently 

 sprinkled over the leaves, for the purpose of increasing the weight 

 of teas. The Doctor also exhibited portions of a large Feline Ani- 

 mal found in Cefn Cave, Wales. 



April G. — Professor Jameson, P. in the Chair. The Assistant- 

 Secretary read a paper by Dr Haworth on the Formation of Cal- 

 careous and Magnesian Rocks, viewed geologically and chemically. 



April 20. — Professor Jameson, P. in the Chair. The Assistant. 

 Secretary read a paper by Dr Hamilton Kinglake, entitled, Ob- 

 servations on Mr Crosse's Electrical Experiments. The President 

 laid before the meeting the list of subjects for Honorary Prizes, 

 M'liidi was published in vol. xxvii. p. 206, of this Journal. 



The opening of the Thirty-third Session of this Society took 

 place on 23d November 1839, William Copland, Esq. V. P. in 

 the Chair. The principal business was the election of office-bearers 

 for 1840, when the following were chosen: — 



President. 



Robert Jameson, Esq. F. R. SS. L. & E., Professor of Natural History in 



the Univcrsif V of E<linbur?b, 



