346 InUoduction of the Shawl Goat into Britain. 



manufacture. It is, therefore, not impossible, that we shall 

 hereafter be in possession, not only of the material, but of 

 the means of manufacturing from it an article of great value, 

 for which the demand has hitherto been limited only by the 

 scantiness of the supply. 



I am, Sir, your's, &c. 



J. MACCULLOCH. 



Art. XII. Proceedings of the Koyal Society. 



The following papers have been read at the Table of the 

 Royal Society, since our last report. 



March 23. — On the means of supplying muscles in a state 

 of spasm or paralysis with nervous power, by Mr. J. Hood, 

 communicated by the President. 



April 13. — On the milk, tusks, and organs of hearing of the 

 dugong, by Sir Everard Home, Bart., V.P.R.S. 



April 20. — On the improvement in the eye-tubes of port- 

 able achromatic telescopes, by William Kitchiner, M.D. 



On the different qualities of the alburnum of spring and 

 winter-felled oak-trees, by Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq. 



April 27. — On the properties of domes and their abutment 

 walls, by Samuel Ware, Esq. 



May 4. — On diarrhaea asthenica, by Assistant-Surgeon 

 Hood. 



On the mode of formation of the canal for containing the 

 spinal marrow, and on the form of the fins of the proteosaurus, 

 by Sir Everard Home, Bart, V.P.R.S. 



May 11. — Some experiments on the fungi which constitute 

 the colouring matter of the red snow discovered in Baffin's 

 Bay, by Francis Bauer, Esq. 



May 18. — Some account of the dugong, by Governor Sir T. 

 S. RafHes. 



