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Robertson (W. H.) A Stone Ball, one of Twenty-three, said to have been fired at the Boat 

 in which Queen Mary and Douglas made their Escape from Loch Leven, and 

 procured from a Fisherman, to whom Sir Walter Scott, some years before, 

 suggested that if the Lake was ever lowered, they would be found near a spot 

 marked out by him. The Lake having been subsequently lowered by the Pro- 

 prietor, the Fisherman made the search, and found twenty-one of the Balls, with 

 the Keys of the Castle. These are deposited in the Museum of the Edinburgh 

 Antiquarian Society. The Twenty-second was found afterwards, and procured 

 by Mr R. for our Cabinet. 



Stone (L. B.) A Specimen of Pine Apple Hemp, made from the Stalk of the Pine Apple. 



A Brush from Japan, made from the Fibres of the Cocoa-Nut. 



Stone (Dexter.) Specimens of Flax and Hemp, prepared at the manufactory of Sands 01- 

 cott, in this city, by a Process and Machinery invented by him, so as to be spun 

 by common Cotton Machinery. By this Process the rotting or hackling is not 

 required, and all the fibres of Hemp or Flax are converted into yarn, of any re- 

 quired quality or fineness, at a Cost not materially differing from Cotton. 



Storey (a Captain in the employ of Messrs Eyre & Massey, of Philadelphia, who in his 

 name presented it to the Society.) A large Marine Cup, Gigantea Alcyona, ob- 

 tained at Singapore, from its place in the Sea, at the depth of twelve fathoms. 

 It is vulgarly called Neptune's Punch Bowl. Inside depth twenty-four inches, 

 height, with the foot, or pedestal, thirty-five inches, diameter eighteen inches. 



Taylor (R. C.) Chromate of Iron, found in large Masses in Cuba, near Gebara River. It 

 is of the finest quality, and yields seventy-five per cent of the finest Chromate 

 of Lead. 



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