SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 23^ 



This analysis shows, that the a{»lome cannot be considered 

 as any of the minerals yet known. 



Under these circumstances it seems to me, when the re- A new species, 

 suits of analysis are not sufficiently decisive to settle the 

 point, it is indispensably necessary to combine with its re- 

 sults the geometrical and physical properties of the mineral; 

 and if we take this course here, which is unquestionably 

 admissible, we shall be led to consider the aplorae as form- 

 ing a distinct species. 



SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 

 Wernerian Natural Historif Socicti/. 



x\T the meeting of this Society on Saturday the 13th of Mmeralogj- of 

 January last, the Rev. Dr. Macknight read a Mineralogical Bt;n Ledi. 

 acccount of Ben Ledi, and the environs of Loch Katterin. 

 The description of the rocks in that district (which consist 

 of mica-slate, and clay-slate, with an overlyiug conglome- 

 rate, formed at a lower level from the debris of primitive 

 mountains) tended, in the author's opinion, to illustrate 

 one branch of the Wernerian doctrine, respecting the order 

 of formations in the mineral kingdom. It also appeared, 

 in confirmation of another principle in the Geognosy, that 

 the direction from SW to ME of the strata composing the 

 Highland mountains, corresponds to what has been observed 

 in general relative to the bearings of the primitive strata in 

 the crust of the Earth. Such a uniformity of direction, it 

 would seem, could have resulted only from the action of 



? lowers in nature that are slow and regular in their opera- 

 ion ; and must be referred to some original law, which, 

 later discoveries render it probable, will be found to depend 

 on the constitution of the terraqueous globe with regard to 

 magnetism and electricity. 



At the same meeting, the Secretary laid before the Society MeteoroTojjy 

 a communication from Mr. Scoresby junior of Whitby, of Greenland!, 

 comprising a meteorological journal of three Greenland 

 voyages; with remarks on the effects of the weather on the 

 barometer in Greenland ; and ou the different crystalliza- 

 tions of snow to be observed in high latitudes. 



Mr. Singer, of the scientitic institution, Princes street. Lectures 6a 

 Cavendish square, intends to commence a course of fourteen electricity, 

 lectures on electricity. Introductory to his course on electro- 

 chemical science, on the 6lh of march. 



ERRATUM. 



Vol. XXIV, p. 374, line iO. For nitrogen read hidrogen. 



