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from this country to Columbia River, on the N. W. coast of 

 America. 



1834, Mar. 15. — Dr Chahles Anderson, V. P. in the chair. 

 — The Secretary read Mr William NicoFs additional observa- 

 tions on the structure of recent fossil coniferae ; and Mr Nicol 

 being present, exhibited both drawings and specimens of the 

 sections made by him. Professor Jameson then described and 

 exhibited drawings of a stickle-back having four dorsal spines, 

 and apparently hitherto undescribed, detected by Mr Stark in 

 the ditches of Hope Park. 



1834, Mar. 29.— David Falconer, Esq formerly V. P. in 

 the chair. — The Secretary read Mr Mark Watt's observations 

 on the attractive and repulsive powers of light, as exhibited up- 

 on metals when in a state of galvanic action ; and Mr Watt ex- 

 hibited his apparatus, and described its mode of action. The 

 Secretary then read an account of the strata found in excavating 

 Hartlepool Docks, communicated by Mr James Milne, the resi- 

 dent engineer. 



1834, April 12. — Professor Jameson, P. in the chair. — A 

 tommunication from Mr J. F. Swan of Douglas, Isle of Man, 

 was read, giving a geological account of the spot where the fos- 

 sil elk now in the University Museum was found. Dr Greville 

 then read a short notice, illustrated by a characteristic drawing 

 by M. Price, of a remarkable appearance in tiie Claydock Coal- 

 mines, Breconshire, which the Doctor regarded as the remains 

 of the lower extremity of a gigantic monocotyledonous vegetable. 



The Wernerian Natural History Society commenced its 

 twenty-eighth session on the 29th November, when the follow- 

 ing gentlemen were elected office-bearers for the year 1835 : — 



President. 

 ItoBERT Jameson, Esq. Prof. Nat. Hist. Univ. of Edinburgh. 



Vice-Presidents. 



W. C. Trevelvan, Esq. Sir P. Walker. 



Dr R. K. Greville, Esq. Bindon Blood, Esq. 



Secretary — Pat. Neill, Esq. Assistant-Secretary — T. J. Torrie, Escj. 



Treasurer — A. 6. Ellis, Esq. Librarian — Jajies 'Wilson, Esq. 



Painter — P. Syme, Esq. W. H. Townsend, Esq. Assistant. 



Council. 

 Principal Baird, David Falconah, Esq. 



H. T. Maire ^Vitham, Esq. Thomas Sivwhight, Esq. 

 Dr T. S. Traill. James Young, Esq. 



Dr John Coldstream. William Copland, Esq. 



The Society met on 13th December, Professor Jameson, Pre- 

 sident, in the chair. Mr Neill, Secretary, read the Rev. Mr Hodg- 

 son's account of the remains of a species of deer, found, in 1833, in 



