402 New Publications. 



4. Report of the Comicil of the Banff Institution for Science, Lite- 

 rature and the Arts. 



The Literary and Philosophical Institutions in Scotland to 

 ihe north of the Frith of Forth, are, 1. The Society of Anti- 

 quaries in Perth, concerning which we do not possess any dis- 

 tinct information ; 2. The Northern Institution at Inverness, 

 a very flourishing association, of which we gave an account 

 in our former volumes ; and, 3. The Banff Institution. From 

 the printed Report of the Council of this Institution, we ob- 

 serve, that, although hitherto none of the memoirs read before 

 the Society, which appear to be often of a geological nature, 

 have been published, still the Society is actively employed. 

 Ere long, we trust this Society, and also that of Inverness, both 

 situated in very interesting districts of Scotland, will, like the 

 also infant Society of Natural History of Newcastle, lay before 

 the public the results of their investigations. 



5. First Report of the Scarborough Philosophical Society, 



The Societies of York, Whitby, and Newcastle, which have 

 done so much for the diffusion of geological information through- 

 out the north of England, may claim, as one of the beneficial 

 results of Uieir example, the establishment, in 1827, of the Scar- 

 borough Philosophical Society. A history of the Society, and 

 various official documents, are printed in the Report ; and along 

 with these> an interesting and remarkably well arranged cata- 

 logue of the flourishing museum attached to the establishment. 

 The geological part of the catalogue we recommend to the 

 notice of geologists. 



6. Transactions of the Plymouth Institution. 

 Printed copies of several memoirs which are to appear in the 

 forthcoming volume of the Transactions of the Plymouth Insti- 

 tution, have been sent to us by the authors, for which they have 

 our best thanks ; but these, although interesting and important, 

 we do not hold ourselves entitled to make public use of untU the 

 appearance of the volume of which they are to form a part. 

 Before our next Number the volume will be published, when 

 we shall have an opportunity of laying an account of its contents 

 before our readers. * 



