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ant-Secretary Mr Torrie, then read Dr Martin Barry's account 

 of his ascent to the summit of Mont Blanc in September last. — 

 Dr Greville, Vice-President, having taken the chair, Professor 

 Jameson communicated the analyses, by Dr Gregory and Mr 

 Walker, of coprolites from Wardie and from Fife, in which these 

 chemists detected fluoric acid ; on which occasion Professor 

 Jameson made remarks connected with his early discovery of 

 fossil fishes in the secondary strata of the middle district of 

 Scotland. 



1835. Professor Jameson in the chair. — Tiie Assistant-Secretary 



an " " read Mr Robert J. Hay Cunningham's account of the geo- 

 logy of the islands of Mull and Iona, at the same time ex- 

 hibiting specimens of the rocks, and numerous sections of the 

 strata and veins. — The Secretary read a notice by Bewick Black- 

 burn, Esq. Civil Engineer, in regard to the remains of deer men- 

 tioned in Mr Hodgson's paper read 13th December last. — Mr 

 P. Small Keir, formerly a Vice-President, having taken the chair, 

 Professor Jameson exhibited a new bird, which appeared to be- 

 long to the genus Eurylaimus of Horsfield, and which he named 

 E. Dalhousise, in honour of the Countess of Dalhousie, by whom 

 it was brought from India. The E. Dalhousise was described in 

 the following terms : — Bill greenish-black ; on its edges, along 

 the culmen, and at the tip, yellowish-white ; length 3-4ths of an 

 inch ; breadth at base 3-4ths of an inch. Nostrils ovoid, in- 

 serted at the base of the bill, and partially covered with feathers. 

 Body grass-green above ; below, apple-green. Throat of a 

 golden-yellow, which extends round the neck, and terminates at 

 the occiput with a few sky-blue feathers. Occiput and top of 

 the head, greyish-black, with a crest of sky-blue. Ear-coverts 

 and face golden-yellow, mixed with sky-blue. Wings short ; 

 1st and 4th quills equal, 2d and 3d the longest ; external webs 

 of quill-feathers grass-green ; internal bluish-black, with a broad 

 band above in their centre of sky-blue; below, there is one of grey- 



