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APPENDIX. 



1837. Dr Thomas Stewart Traill, Vice-President, in the chair — The 



e ' ' Assistant Secretary read Mr William Jameson's critical exa- 

 mination of Mr Swainson's account of the distribution of Bri- 

 tish birds, his observations being founded on the examination 

 of numerous specimens in the University Museum. — Professor 

 Jameson then read a notice regarding the occurrence of Arrago- 

 nite near Ely and Craill, and its being found more lately by Lord 

 Greenough at Lochgelly, in secondary trap-rocks. Professor 

 Jameson likewise gave an account of a series of rocks collected in 

 the Caucasian range by Major-General George Wright. — There 

 were exhibited to the meeting a very fine specimen of the red 

 orang-outang of Borneo, the great sloth from South America, a 

 new species of eagle from Northern India, and the great Cali- 

 fornian vulture. 



Sir — We have been appointed a committee by the Wernerian Natural 

 History Society of Edinburgh, to represent to the Commissioners of the 

 Northern Lights the importance of an accurate determination of the 

 relative levels of sea and land on the British coast, and to request re- 

 spectfully, but earnestly, that the Commissioners would order daily ob- 

 servations of the levels of high and low water to be made and register- 

 ed at the lighthouses best adapted to such experiments. Trusting that 

 you will lay this expression of our desire for the promotion of so im- 

 portant an object before the Commissioners, we remain, &c. 



To this memorial tho following answer was received : — 



Northern Lights' Office, Edinburgh, 

 27*A April 1837- 

 Gentlemen — I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 

 19th, containing a request, on the part of the Wernerian Natural His- 

 tory Society, that the Commissioners of the Northern Lighthouses would 

 order daily observations of the high and low water to be made and regis- 

 tered at the lighthouses best adapted to such experiments. I am direct- 

 ed by the Commissioners to acquaint you, that they will have great plea- 

 sure in complying with your request, and that they have made a remit to 

 Mr Stevenson, their engineer, to make the requisite arrangements, and 

 to correspond with you on the subject. I am, &c. 



(Signed) C. Cuningham, Sec, 



Professor Jameson and Committee 

 of Wernerian Natural History So- 

 ciety, College. 



