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4t/i March — David Falconer, Esq., V.P. iis tlie Chair. Mr 

 Torrie, assistant-secretary, read Mr Hamilton Stirling's observa- 

 tions on the Punnah diamond mines. Professor Jameson commu- 

 nicated a notice regarding the granite at Kingston Harbour, Dub- 

 lin, and the trap rocks of the islet of Pladda, off Cantyre, with 

 specimens transmitted by Mr Stevenson, civil engineer. Mr Tor- 

 rie then read a notice regarding recent marine shells found in a 

 bed of clay thirty feet above the present level of the Frith of 

 Forth, by Mr James Nicol, Polmont. Mr Smith of Jordanhill 

 communicated a letter from the Rev. David Landsborough of Ste- 

 venston, describing a deposit of similar recent shells mixed with 

 sea-weed at a similar elevation above the present level of the Frith 

 of Clyde. 



After a lengthened conversation on the subject of the entire re- 

 moval of the Government Trigonometrical Survey from Scotland 

 to Ireland, the meeting agreed to remit to the Council of the So- 

 ciety to prepare a Memorial to Government, requesting that the 

 triangulation of Scotland should speedily be completed and pub- 

 lished. And for this special business, the meeting directed that 

 Mr Smitb of Jordanhill and Mr James Stewart Menteath, jun. of 

 Closeburn, be summoned to the meeting of Council. 



Professor Jameson then laid on the table Lord Gray's Kinfauns 

 Meteorological Table for 1836, and also that of the Rev. Mr Macrit- 

 chie of Cluny : and exhibited a skeleton of a common cock, shewing 

 a curious abnormal formation in that bird. 



25ih March David Falconar, Esq., V. P. in the Chair. Mr 



Torrie, assistant-secretarj% read a communication from the Rev. 

 Samuel Traill, on the mode of ascertaining the rate of the increase 

 of the internal temperature of the earth ; likewise an account of 

 experiments made by Mr Peter Grant on the new substance named 

 Donium, found in the Davidsonite of the Aberdeen quarries, com- 

 municated by Professor Fleming of King's College, Aberdeen. 

 Dr Martin Barry then read further observations on the unity of 

 structure in the animal kingdom, and on congenital anomalies, in- 

 cluding hermaphrodites ; with remarks on embryology, as facilita- 

 ting animal nomenclature, classification, and the study of compara- 

 tive anatomy; illustrating the whole by diagrams. (Since pub- 

 lished in this Journal, vol. xxii. p. 343.) 



8<A April.— Dt T. S. Traill, V. P. in the Chair. It was inti- 

 mated that the Council had passed a resolution, directing the Se- 

 cretary to write to the Secretaries of the Royal Society of Edin- 



