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known, although it has recently been found in France and England ; Mr 

 Bartlett in the latter country having described it under the name of Anser 

 phcenicopus, the Pink-footed Goose, although it -was previously distin- 

 guished by a French naturalist, and is also described in the fourth volume 

 of M. Temininck's Manuel d'Ornithologie. A fine specimen of the pink- 

 footed goose was exhibited. 



Mr Trevelyan exhibited some curiously-fractured quartz-pebbles from 

 the old red sandstone conglomerate of Auchmithie, on the coast of Forfar- 

 shire ; and also some specimen plates of Mr Boscawen Ibbetson's ap- 

 plication of the Daguerreotype to the representation of fossil organic 

 remains. 



December 12.— Dr Traill, V.P., in the chair. The Assistant-Secretary 

 read notes of an expedition to the Sutledge and in the Himinalehs, by 

 William Jameson, Esq. Assistant-Surgeon, H.E.I.C.S. During his tour, 

 the author visited many of the localities from which the collections made 

 by Baker, Cautley, Falconar, Colvin, Clerk, and Macleod, had been ob- 

 tained, and also some new points where fossils are found. He states, that 

 there is evidence of the occurrence of these remains throughout the whole 

 Sivalick range which extends between the Jumna and Sutledge, or over 

 a tract of country upwards of ninety miles in length. The sandstone con- 

 taining the organic remains is inclined at a considerable angle, and the 

 author is of opinion that volcanic action must have operated in the dis- 

 trict posteriorly to the destruction of the animals whose remains are now 

 met with in a fossil state. The following are the genera hitherto disco- 

 vered in a fossil state in the Sivalick range :— Simia, Ursus, Canis, Hysena, 

 Felis, Gulo, Mus, Hystrix, Elephas, Mastodon, Hippopotamus, Sus, Pa- 

 lseotherium, Anthracothcrium (Chaerotherium, Falc. & Caut.), Rhinoce- 

 ros, Equus, Sivatherium, Camelus, Cervus, Antilope, Bos, Gaviala, Cro- 

 eodilus, Emys, Trionyx, Ardea. There are species living at the present 

 day of all the genera found, except four. 



Mr John Goodsir read an account of certain peculiarities in the 

 structure of the Short Sun-Fish, Orthagoriscus Mola (published in this 

 No. of the Journal, p. 189). — A memoir by Dr John Richardson was then 

 read, on the Frozen Soil of North America (also published in this No., 

 p. 110). — Dr Traill exhibited specimens of Witherite or Carbonate of 

 Baryta from a new locality in Wales, and made remarks on the mine 

 from which it is extracted. This mine is close to the right side of the 

 public road leading from St Asaph to Holywell, about three miles from 

 the former town, among the clay- slate mountains that form the eastern 

 boundary of the fertile valley of Clwyd, and near the junction of the slate 

 with the mountain limestone. It is in the mining district of Rliualt, and 

 the mine where it is chiefly found is named the Pennant Mine. The 

 entrance to the veins containing it is by an adit near the road, which 

 serves as a drain to the workings in the upper part of the hill, with an 

 inclination from its upper part to its exit of 25 feet. 



