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Proceedings (yftlie Werner ian Natural History Society. (Con- 

 tinued from former V^olume, p. 391) 



1829, March 28.— Henky Witham, Esq. V. P. in the Chair, 

 The Secretary read a paper by Dr Fleming of Fhsk, on the 

 insufficiency of the evidence of a milder climate having formerly 

 prevailed in the Arctic Regions. (This interesting paper is 

 printed in the preceding Number of this Journal, p. 277. et seq.) 

 The Rev. Dr Scot of Corstorphine then read an essay, entitled 

 The Natural History of the Bee illustrated from the Sacred 

 Writings. The Secretary next read a notice contained in a let- 

 ter from Mr Stuart Menteath, younger of Closeburn, to Pro- 

 fessor Jameson, regarding the breeding of the Emu of New 

 Holland, at North Cray near London. Professor Jameson read 

 extracts of a letter from Lieut. Alexander of Chatham to Pro- 

 fessor Wallace, giving an account of a deposite of bones of the 

 ancient ox and deer, found in a chalk cave. At this meeting a 

 fine skeleton of a recent elk from Lapland was exhibited ; and 

 the President pointed out the difference between the existing 

 elk and the fossil species found in Ireland and the Isle of Man. 



April 11. — Dr Walter Adam, V. P. in the Chair. Mr 

 Henry Witham read a paper on the Red Sandstone of Scotland, 

 illustrating his remarks by specimens of the New and of the Old 

 Red Sandstone, and shewing that coal may be found under the 

 former, but cannot be expected under the latter. The Rev. 

 Dr Scot then read an essay on the Honey of the land of Ca- 

 naan. Mr Mark Watt exhibited and described his instrument 

 for measuring the different degrees of solar magnetic intensity. 

 The Secretary read a report by Mr Robert Spittal and Mr 

 Robert Stevenson jun. relative to the nature of the impression 

 left on soft clay by the feet of the common pig, both on a hori- 

 zontal surface and on an inclined plane, proving in general that 

 the impression is multungulated, not bisulcated. 



Jpril 25. — Dr Adam, V. P. in the Chair. The Secretary 

 read part of Dr Murray's account of the Botany of the Upper 

 District of Aberdeenshire. The President then gave an inte- 

 resting view of the most important ob.servations or discoveries 

 in natural history recently made in different parts of Europe. 

 The Society adjourned till November. 



