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distinct, and, when necessary, accompanied hy Specimens, Drawings, 

 or Models. 



The Society shall be at liberty to publish in their Transactions, 

 copies or abstracts of all Papers submitted to them. All Models, 

 Drawings, &c. for which Prizes shall be given, shall be held to be 

 the property of the Society ; and these and all others which shal 

 be approved of, shall be entitled to a place in the Museum. 



All communications must be written on Foolscap paper, leaving 

 margins^at least one inch broad on both the outer and iiiner sides of 

 the page, so as to allow of their being afterwards bound up with 

 others ; and all Drawings must be on Imperial Drawing Paper, un- 

 less a larger sheet be requisite. 



The Society reserve to themselves the power of determining whe- 

 ther any Communication be of sufficient merit to entitle it to the 

 Prize for which it competes, and of modifying the amount of the 

 Prize. 



All communications (except those competing for Prize II.) to be 

 lodged as soon after 1st November 1839 as possible, in order to insure 

 their being read during the Session ; but those which cannot be 

 lodged so early, will be received till \st March 1840. 



Communications, Models, &c. to be addressed to James Tod, 

 Esq. the Secretary, at the Museum of the Society of Arts, 63 

 Hanover Street, Edinburgh. 



Royal Institution, Edinburgh, Zd July 1839. 



NEW PUBLICATIONS. 



1. Memoirs of the Werner ian Natural History Society, for the years 

 1837-8. Part I. Vol. viii. With Five Engravings. 8vo, pp. 163. 

 Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black : Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, 

 and Longman, London : and H. Beilby, Birmingham. 



This first part of the eighth volume of the Wemerian Me- 

 moirs contains the following communications : — (1.) Observa- 

 tions on the Distinctions, History, and Hunting of Seals in the 

 Shetland Islands. By Laurence Edmonstone, M. D. — This 

 is the most interesting and amusing account of the British 

 Seals hitherto published : it will be perused with equal plea- 

 sure by the general reader and the man of science. Dr L. 

 Edmonstone, who is a native of Shetland, and resident in that 

 secluded but very interesting country, we trust, will next take 

 up the osteology and internal structure of the Phocidae. 

 (2.) On the last Changes in the relative Levels of the Land 



