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taries, were appointed a committee, with powers to prepare and 

 present such a memorial.* 



\Sth February Dr T. Stewart Traill, V.P. in the Cliair. 



Mr Torrie, assistant-secretary, read Mr William Jameson's cri- 

 tical examination of Mr Swainson's account of the distribution of 

 British birds, his observations being founded on the examination 

 of numerous specimens in the University Museum. Professor 

 Jameson then read a notice regarding the occurrence of Arragonite 

 near Ely and Crail, and more lately at Lochgelly, in secondary trap 

 rocks. Professor Jameson likewise gave an account of a series of 

 rocks collected in the Caucasian range by Major-General George 

 Wright. There were exhibited to the meeting a very fine speci- 

 men of the red orang-outang of Borneo, the great sloth from 

 South America, a new species of eagle from Northern India, and 

 the great Californian vulture. 



* In consequence of the above resolution, the following memorial was 

 addressed by the committee to Charles Cunninghame, Esq., Secretary to the 

 Commissioners of the Northern Lights : — 



Sib, 



We have been appointed a committee by the \Vernerian Natural 

 History Society of Edinburgh, to represent to tlie Commissioners of the 

 Northern Lights the importance of an accurate determination of the relative 

 levels of sea and land on the British coast, and to request respectfully, but 

 earnestly, that the Commissioners would order daily observations of the levels 

 of high and low water to be made and registered at the light-houses best 

 adapted to such experiments. Trusting that you will lay this expression of 

 our desire for the promotion of so important an object before the Commis- 

 sioners, &c. 



To this memorial the following answer was received: — 



NoBTHBRN Lights Office, Edinburgh, 

 27i/t Aipril 1837. 

 Gentlemen, 



I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 19th, containing 

 a request, on the part of the Wernerian Natural History Society, that the 

 Commissioners of the Northern Light- Houses would order daily observations 

 of the high and low water to be made and registered at the light-houses best 

 adapted to such experiments. I am directed by the Commissioners to acquaint 

 you, that they will have great pleasure in complying with your request, and 

 that they have made a remit to Mr Stevenson, their engineer, to make the 

 requisite arrangements, and to correspond with you on the subject. I am, 



&c. 



(Signed) C. Cunninghame, Sec. 



Professor Jameson and Committee 

 of Wernerian Natural History 

 Society, College. 



