•i/.O JVerneriun Natural History Society. 



Mr. D;ivy describes in this lecture, is a new inflammable 

 gas composed of the boraeic basis and hvdrogcn. 



WERNEHIAN NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



The first meeting of the third session of this Society 

 was held in the College Museum at Edinburgh on the 4th 

 .of November last. There was then read a learned botanical 

 paper, by Mr. R. Brown, of London, proposing a subdi- 

 vision of the Apocinene of Jussieu, to be called Asclepia- 

 d^ ; the first part of a paper on meteoric stones, by Mr. 

 G. S. Hamilton J and the concluding part of an account 

 of the fishes found m the Frith of FoVth,bv Mr, Neill. 



The next meeting was on the gth of December, when 

 professor Jameson read an account of a considerable num- 

 ber of animals of the class Vermes, which he had ob- 

 served on the sh;)rcs of the Frith of Forth, and I he coasts 

 of the Orkney and Shetland Islands ; and also a series of 

 observations on the different precious stones found in Scot- 

 land ; particularly the topaz, of which he exhibited a series 

 of interesting specimens from Aberdeenshire, and among 

 these was a crystal weighing nearly eight ounces, which is 

 probably the largest crystallized s[)ecimen hitherto disco- 

 vered in any country. The secretary laid before this meet- 

 ing a communication from the rev. Mr. Fleniing of Bres- 

 say, describing several rare Vermes lately discovered bv Iiim 

 in Shetland ; and a catalogue of rare Plants to be found 

 within a day's excursion from Edini)urgh, by Mr. R. 

 Maughan, sen. At this meeting the following gentlemen 

 were chosen office-bearers for 1810: Professor Jameson, 

 president ; Drs. Wright, Macknight, Barclay and T. Thom- 

 son, vice-presidents : P. Walke;-, esq. treasurer : P. Neill, 

 esq. secretary : P. Sime, painter. 



LXXI. Intelligence and Miscellaneous ylriiclcs. 



W ERNEU has had the distinguished honour conferred on 

 him of being elected one of the honorary fellows of the 

 Royal Society of Edinburi^h ; and also honorary member 

 of the Royal Medical, Rova! Physical, and Natmal History 

 and Chemical Societies of Edinburgh, and of the Literary 

 and Philosophical Society of Manchester. 



Tuesday, Dec. 56, died at his house in Wells Street, 

 Oxford Street, Tiberius Cavallo, esq. F. R.S. &c., and au- 

 thor of several valuable scientific works. 



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