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Proceedings of the Wernerian Natural History Society. 

 {Cotiti lined jTroni p. 209-) 



The thirty-first session of this Society commenced on tlie 25th 



November 1837 ; when the following gentlemen were elected ofiice- 



bearers for 1838, viz. 



President. 



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

 University of Edinburgh. 



rice- Presidents. 

 Dr John Coldstream, Dr Charles Andehso.v, jVr.R.C.S. 



David Falconar, Esq. William Copland, Esq. F.ll.S.E. 



Secretary — Dr P. Neill, F.R.S E. Librarian James ^V'ilson, Esq. 



Assistant Sec. — T. J. Torrie, Esq. Painter P. SywE, Esq. 



Treasurer — A. G. Ellis, Esq. Assist. Painter W. H. Townsend, Esq. 



Council. 



Dr R. K. Greville, F.R.S.E. Dr Martin Barry, F.R.S.E. 



.John Sligo, Esq. F.R.S.E. Ro. James Hay Cunningham Esq 



Dr Walter Adam, F.R.C.P. W. A. Cadell, Esq. F.R.SS. L. & E. 



Dr William Macdonald, F.R.S.E. Dr Robert Hamilton, F.R.S.E. 



At this meeting Dr Martin Barry exhibited a living specimen of 

 the Proteus anguinus ; and having, with a lancet, drawn a small 

 portion of its blood, shewed the globules by means of a microscope 

 by Sehiek of Berlin, these globules being about fifteen times larger 

 than those of human blood. 



1837, Dec. 9 — Professor Jameson P. in the Chair. Mr Torrie 

 read the Rev. Dr Anderson's Account of remarkable Fossil Re- 

 mains, especially Fishes, found in the sandstone of Fifeshire • and 

 exhibited some interesting and beautiful specimens. Mr Torrie 

 then read Dr Bone's remarks on the scenery, antiquities, popula- 

 tion, agriculture, and commerce of Central Turkey, Part 1st (since 

 published in the last number of this Journal, p. 121). Professor 

 Jameson exhibited an enormous tibial bone of a Mammoth from 

 the base of the Himinalaya range in Upper India ; likewise two 

 iBkuUs of the great or red Oran-oulang ; and a fine specimen of the 

 S*ork killed on the mainland of Shetland last autumn, and trans- 

 mitted by William Mouat Cameron Mouat, Esq. of Garth. 



Jan. 13. 1838. Professor Jam kson P. in the Chair Mr Torrie 



read Mr G. Maclaine of Batava's Remarks on the Geology and Mi- 

 neralogy of Java, which were illustrated by specimens ; likewise Re- 

 marks on a species of the order Cheiroptera, taken in the tombs of 

 the kings at Thebes, by Dr William Hibbert of the Oueeng 

 Royals ; communicated by Sir James M Grigor. Mr VV illiam 

 Jameson exhibited and desci-ibed various specimens of new or rare 

 birds from Nortiiern India. 



Jan. 27 — Davii> Falconar, Esq. V.P. in the Chair. — Mr Torrie 



