428 Proceeding's of the Wernerian Society. 



read a communication by Dr Charles Bell, Physician to the British 

 Embassy at the Court of Persia, on the Geology of part of the dis- 

 trict of Mazunderan. (This Paper has since been read at the Geolo- 

 gical Society of London.) Professor Jameson exhibited and de- 

 scribed a fine specimen of the head of a large Mastodon from India ; 

 from the collection of Colonel Colvin. Mr Kemp exhibited the ex- 

 periment of the solidification of carbonic acid gas. 



Feb. 10. — David Falconar, Esq. V.P. in the Chair — Mr Torrie 

 read, 1. Dr Boue's Remarks on the scenery, antiquities, population, 

 agriculture, and commerce of Central Turkey. Part 2d (Published 

 in our present Number, p. 237.) 2. A letter from Dr Smith of Lima 

 on the use of ice in the cure of cholera morbus in Peru. 3. A letter 

 from J. B. Pentland, Esq. containing notices on elevated beaches in 

 South America, (an extract is published in the present Number). 

 Mr William Jameson communicated some remarks on gulls, and 

 described a new species from India. Mr Kemp shewed the action 

 of potassium on various gases. 



Feb. 24. — David Falconar, Esq. V.P. in the Chair — Dr Mar- 

 tin Barry gave microscopic demonstrations of the ciliary motions, 

 as well as of individual ciliae, in the Ostrea edulis ; also of an un- 

 impregnated ovulum of the Lepus tiraidus, &c. and described a 

 series of diagrams, illustrative of the various parts of the ovulum in 

 all classes of animals, from the infusoria to man. 



March 10. — Professor Jameson, P. in the Chair — Dr Robert 

 Hamilton exhibited beautiful coloured drawings of the known spe- 

 cies of seals, and made remarks on the characters and habits of each. 

 Mr R. J. Hay Cunningham read a paper on elevated beaches, in re- 

 ference especially to a deposit near Cockburnspath. Dr Martin 

 Barry then read a paper on the Blood, in regard particularly to 

 the application of histological characters in zoological classification, 

 first proposed by Professor Wagner of Erlangen in Bavaria. He 

 pointed out some remarkable coincidences between the size of the 

 red particles and the degree of concentration of the germinative 

 spots in Fishes and Amphibia, and gave a microscopic demonstra- 

 tion of the blood-granules of the Ostrea edulis, and of the unim- 

 pregnated ovulum of Birds and osseous Fishes. 



Botanical Society of Edinburgh. 



From an early period in the history of the University of 

 Edinburgh, the Professors have recommended and encouraged 

 the formation, among the students, of philosophical and literary 

 societies, where not only the different branches of science and 

 literature, as taught in the University, but also the novel views 

 and original investigations brought forward by the members, 

 could be freely and amply discussed. 



