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8. What is the extent arrd pavticwlar ge©gnostic rek« 

 tions of the black pitchstone of Eshdale Muir ia Dumfries- 

 shire? 



9. Does the black pitchstone of the Cheviot hills belong 

 to the newest floetz-trap formation ? 



10. On what formation does the porphyry slate of Braid 

 Hills near Edinburgh rest, and what are the venigenous and 

 imbedded fossils it contains ? 



11. What are the geognostic characters and relations of 

 the edge and flat coal beds or seams in Mid Lothian .'' 



12. On what formation does the Calton Hill near Edin- 

 burgh rest ? 



13. Does the greenstone of Corstorphine Hill belong to 

 the independent coal formation ? 



14. Does the hill on which the town of Stirling is built 

 belong to the coal formation ? 



15. What are the geognostic characters and relations of 

 the veins tliat traverse or are included in the greenstone of 

 the independent coal formation .'' 



16. What are the characters of the transition greenstone 

 of the eouth of Scotland ? 



17. What are the particular species of petrifactions that 

 occur in the transition limestone near the Crook, on the 

 road from Edinburgh to Moffat ? 



Mr. Parkinson's second volume of organic remains of a Parkin-Ton'-ior- 

 former world is intended to be published in June, it will g'^f^'^ '■"^'"'i'"^* 

 contain twenty plates, representing the figures of nearly 

 two hundred different fossils of the remains of zoophytes, 

 coloui'ed after nature; among which are tlie mineralized re- 

 mains of upwards of twenty species of the encrinus. It 

 cannot but be gratifying to our readers to know, that of 

 -these remains the greater number have been found in dif- 

 ferent parts of this island. 



Dr. Satterley and Dr. Young propose to give two courses Medical leo 

 of Medical Lectures next winter at thelVIiddiesex Hospital, t^^'cs. 

 Dr. Satterley's will be Clinical lectures, and any of the pu- 

 pils of the hospital attending them will have the privilege of 

 seeing the patients whose cases are discussed. He will be 

 assisted in the department of morbid anatomy by Mr. Cart- 

 wright. Dr Young's course will be on the Elements of 

 the Medical Sciences in general, and on the Practice of 

 Physic in particular. It has been erroneously stated in 

 several periodical publications, that Dr. Young had a large 

 medical work nearly ready for the press; the errourarose from 

 his having been for some time engaged in the preparation of 

 these lectures. 



