182 Proceedings. 



Tlie Secretary drew the attention of the meeting to a small flat fish, about three 

 inches in length, having a somewhat shield-like form of body, enclosed in fixed 

 enamelled plates above and below, vrith a sauroid tail terminating in a filamentous 

 point : the upper jaw is a continuation of the superior enamelled plate, the snout 

 is in the form of a delicate flexible Uttle trunk, a little behind which is the m.outh 

 on the under surface, the under jaws being apparently constituted for moving, 

 when fresh, upon the upper fixed portion, with a slit between for gills. On either 

 side, from a point corresponding to the upper quarters of a shield, a fin composed 

 of soft tapering rays passes ofi", having much the aspect of the lateral processes 

 characterizing the Ftericthys of the Devonian rocks in Scotland. This remarkable 

 little animal was obtained recently from the stomach of a fish taken vdth hook and 

 line at a depth of two or three fathoms in D'Entrecasteaxix's Channel, opposite to 

 Oyster Cove. 



Mr. Mac Naughtan drew the attention of the meeting to a report in the North 

 JBritish Daily Mail newspaper of the proposed scheme for supplying Glasgow 

 with water from Loch Katrine, a distance of about 60 miles, and the probability of 

 the undertaking, upon which £20,000 had been expended, being abandoned, in 

 consequence of the extreme purity of the water rendering it Hable to become 

 rapidly impregnated with lead from the piping used. The Secretary read the 

 analysis by Professor Penny. 



The thanks of the meeting having been unanimously voted for donations and 

 papers. His Excellency left the chair soon after nine o'clock, and the members 

 separated. 



9th: August : — Monthly meeting ; His Excellency Su* W. T. Denison, Presi- 

 dent, occupied the chair. 



Amongst the members present were : — Dr. Agnew ; Messrs. Barnard, Bisdee, 

 Boot, Brown, Eraser, Mac Naughtan, and Dobson ; Rev. Alexander Canndizfi"; 

 Captain Hawkins, E. E. ; Messrs. Hone, Hall, Eilburn, Loch, Matson, Moss, 

 Makeig, Lee, and Rolwegan. 



Dr. Macnamara, late of Ross, and Mr. Deakin, of Murray-street, were elected 

 EeUows of the Society. Other candidates were proposed preparatory to the next 

 ballot. 



The following presentations were made : — 



To the Library, — FromMr.MacNaughtan, "The Electric Telegraph — its History 

 and Progress," by Edmimd Highton, C. E. 



Report of the Celebrated Trial in the case of the Torhane Mineral, before the 

 Lord Chief Justice General and a Special Jiu'y. 



From Mr. Deakin, — Coloured Map of the Seat of War in the North of Europe 

 and the East. 



From Mr. Eodd, — A Dutch work on the Transformations of Insects, dated 1774, 



