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the Parliamentary papers shewed that he had drawn from the 

 Treasury upwards of L.7000 for that service. But the only 

 fruit of this expenditure is the publication of his posthumous 

 Geological Map, on which unfortunately little reliance can be 

 placed for local details, as a trigonometrical survey should have 

 preceded any attempt to represent the position of the rocks and 

 mineral productions by a coloured map. Of this truth Dr Mac- 

 Culloch appears to have become sensible, when he had advanced 

 the imperfection of our best maps as an excuse for his delay in 

 preparing the materials he had collected. 



" Your Memorialists do not consider it necessary to enter into 

 any detailed observations on this occasion on the numerous and 

 important advantages which must result to navigation, commerce, 

 and agriculture, or the scientific interest which would arise from 

 the completion of the Trigonometrical Survey of Scotland ; as 

 your Memorialists have no doubt that these are obvious to your 

 Lordships ; and they have the fullest confidence in the desire of 

 his Majesty's Government to extend the benefits of accurate 

 geographical knowledge to all parts of his Majesty's dominions. 

 " Signed in name of the Society, 



" R. Jameson, President. 

 " University, Edinburgh, 26th April 1837." 

 The following Minute of Council was also read : — " The meet- 

 ing directed that 100 copies of the Memorial be printed; that a 

 fair copy be written out for the Treasury, to be signed by the 

 President in name of the Society, and transmitted through a 

 Member of Parliament ; and that afterwards a printed copy be 

 transmitted to each of the Lords Commissioners, to the Speaker 

 of the House of Commons, and to each of the Scotch Members 

 of Parliament," &c. — The Assistant-Secretary read a continua- 

 tion of Captain Mackenzie's account of his overland journey 

 from India, particularly describing the present statistics of Mo- 

 cha ; also an account, by Mr Percy, of a visit, last summer, to 

 the Jardin, near Chamouni, with a list of alpine plants — Mr 



