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country, and of the objects and views of the Society. We hope 

 to have it in our power to present our readers with this address 

 in a future number. 



In addition to the members mentioned above as present at 

 the first meeting, the Society already numbers amongst its most 

 zealous supporters the following distinguished personages : — • 



His Royal Highness the JDuke of Sussex, the Dukes of 

 Somerset, Northumberland, and Bedford ; the Marquesses of 

 Hertford, Salisbury, and Stafford ; Earls Carnarvon, Caledon, 

 Gower, Hardwicke, Lonsdale, Malmsbury, Mountnorris, Minto, 

 Spencer, Stanhope, Winchelsea, Oxford, and Grosvenor ; Vis- 

 count Dudley and Ward, Viscount Gage; the Bishops of Bath 

 and Wells, London, and Carlisle ; Lords Calthorpe, Clifton, 

 Downe, Ducie, Ellenborough, Leveson Gower, Holland, Lovaine, 

 and Selsey ; Right Hon. C. Arbuthnot, Right Hon. Sir C. Long, 

 Right Hon. Sir G. Rose, Right Hon. Robert Peele, Right Hon. 

 Sir J. Leach, Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Right Hon. John 

 Beckett, Right Hon. F. C. Robinson, Hon. Col, Bligh, Hon. G. 

 Agar Ellis, Hon. Capt. Percy, Hon. W. S. Ponsonby, Hon. R. 

 Stopford. Hon. and Rev. Dr. Wellesley, Sir H. Bunbury, Sir 

 C. H. Coote, Sir S. Graham, Sir R. Heron, Sir B. Hobhouse, 

 Sir W. Jardine, Sir J. Shelley, Sir G. T. Staunton, Sir J. Croft, 

 Sir F. Baker, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Sir W. F. Middleton, Sir 

 W. Rawson, Sir P. C. Silvester, Admiral Sir C. Pole, Sir J. E. 

 Smith, Sir H. Halford, John Wilson Croker, Esq. MP. Alexan- 

 der Baring, Esq. MP. Richard Heber, Esq. the Rev. Dr. Good- 

 all, the Rev. William Kirby, Francis Chantrey, Esq. Alexander 

 Mac Leay, Esq. William Sharpe Mac Leay, Esq. the Dean of 

 Carlisle, &c. E. W. B. 



Article X. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTICES. 



Zoology. 



1. On the Discovery of hive Cockles in a Peat Moss distant from 



the Sea. 



At the meeting of the Wernerian Society on the 19th of Nov. 

 last, Henry Witham, Esq. read a very interesting paper, " On the 

 Discovery of Live Cockles in Peat-Moss, at a great Distance 

 from the Sea, and much above its present Level." These shells 

 were discovered in the month of October last, in Yorkshire, about 

 forty miles from the sea-coast, in the course of a mineralogical 

 excursion by Mr. Witham through that county. He was led to 

 the spot by a tradition which prevailed in the country of this 

 anomalous occurrence, and found the cockles alive in the sandy 

 bottom of a drain which had been formed through the moss. 



