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munications were made, after the address to Her Majesty on the 
birth of the Princess Royal had been carried by acclamation : 
1. On certain Physiological Inferences which may be drawn from 
the study of the Nerves of the Eyeball. By Dr. Alison. 
2. On the Plane and Angle of Polarization at the Surfaces of 
Crystals. By Professor Kelland. 
TWEEDSIDE PHYSICAL AND ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY. 
The Quarterly Meeting of this Society in its new apartments, 
Noy. 23, His Grace the Duke of Roxburghe in the Chair, was nu- 
merously attended. 
The following donations to the Museum in the department of Na- 
tural History were reported : 
From Mr. Burgess, Fochabers.—Minerals and fossil organic re- 
mains from Banffshire. 
From a lady (through Mr. Stuart, surgeon).—Calc-tufa, quartz 
with olivine, limestone, &c., from Madeira and Gibraltar. 
From His Grace the Duke of Roxburghe.—Egyptian I[chneumon 
(Viverra Ichneumon). 
From Robert Wilkie, Esq. of Ladythorn.—Sea Eagle (Aquila 
albicilla), in excellent plumage; Sapphirine Gurnard (Trigla Hi- 
rundo). 
From an anonymous contributor, who continues his valuable dona- 
tions to this department.—Snowy Owl, female (Strix nyctea) ; Teng- 
malm’s Night Owl, male and female (Noctua Tengmalmi) ; Little Owl, 
male (Scotophilus nudipes) ; Grasshopper Warblers, male and female 
(Salicaria locustella) ; Wryneck, female (Yunzx torquilla); Whim- 
brel (Numenius Pheopus) ; Velvet Duck, male (Ozdemia fusca). 
Other specimens have been received from Mr. Beckwith, Yetholm 
Hall; Mr. Scarth, Aberdeen, &c. &c.; and some valuable additions 
to the library and the collection of antiquities. &c. 
A list of the birds still required has been lately extensively cir- 
culated, and will serve as a guide to those who may be inclined to 
assist the Society in this iateresting department of its labours. 
In Entomology a most valuable and extensive contribution has 
been received from Mr. Selby of Twizell, one of the Vice-Presidents. 
A fresh subscription has been opened for the liquidation of the 
sum remaining due for the building and internal fittings, some of the 
principal farmers in the neighbourhood having already contributed. 
The Meteorological observations, instituted under the auspices of 
Sir T. Brisbane and the Duke of Roxburghe, are ably carried on by 
Mr. Ferguson; and an agreement has been entered into with cer- 
tain eminent cultivators of natural science for sending abroad an ex- 
perienced naturalist, to form a collection of objects of natural history, 
to be forwarded to this country, and divided among the severai sub- 
scribers. For the means of effecting this, they have been indebted 
to the generosity of their President, Sir Thomas Brisbane. In the 
Ornithological department their collection now amounts to upwards 
of 300 specimens, illustrating nearly 200 different species of British 
