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the unity of structure in the animal kingdom, and on congenital 

 anomalies, including hermaphrodites ; with remarks on embryo- 

 logy, as facilitating animal nomenclature, classification, and the 

 study of comparative anatomy ; illustrating the whole by dia- 

 grams. 



1837. Dr T. S. Traill, Vice-President, in the chair. — It was inti- 



April 8. 



mated that the Council had passed a resolution, directing the 



Secretary to write to the Secretaries of the Royal Society of 

 Edinburgh, and the Highland and Agricultural Society, suggest- 

 ing the importance of co-operation on the part of the principal 

 scientific associations, and especially of these societies, in an ap- 

 plication to Government for the resumption of the trigonome- 

 trical survey of Scotland. — The Assistant-Secretary read the 

 first part of Captain Mackenzie's account of his overland journey 

 from India — Mr Smith of Jordanhill read an account of some 

 extraordinary optical phenomena depending on atmospheric re- 

 fraction, observed in the counties of Ayr and Stirling — Mr 

 Macgillivray then read a paper on the geological relations, and 

 animal and vegetable productions, of the Cromarty Frith, with 

 observations relative to the estuaries and sea-lochs of Scotland. 



April 21. The following Memorial, prepared by the Council and Messrs 

 Smith of Jordanhill and J. Stuart Menteath jun. of Closeburn, 

 was read and-approved of. 



" Unto the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of 

 His Majesty's Treasury, the Humble Memorial of the 

 President and Members of the Wernerian Natural His- 

 tory Society of Edinburgh ; 



" Sheweth, 

 " That while your Memorialists view, with the utmost satis- 

 faction, the progress which has been made in the noble Ordnance 

 Surveys of England and Ireland, and are fully alive to the im- 



