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mean time, a very simple popular remedy is employed in 

 Devonshire : the meat of the chicks (barley or oat meal) is 

 merely mixed up with urine, in place of water, and this 

 prescription is very generally attended with the best effects. 



At the meeting of this Society on the 12th of November, 

 ibeRev. Andrew Jameson, minister of St.Mungo, Dumfries- 

 shire, read Observations on Meteorological Tables, with a 

 Description of a new Anemometer. After some general 

 remarks on the importance of meteorological observations, 

 and on the merits and defects of registers of the weather, 

 &x. he pointed out what he considered to be the best form 

 of a meteorological journal, and then described the external 

 form aiul internal structure of an extensive and complete 

 meteorological observatory, and enumerated about twenty 

 different instruments which ought to* find a place in every 

 establishment of that kind. The anemometer which he de- 

 scribed will, by a very simple and ingenious arrangement of 

 parts, enable the most common observer to ascertain the ve- 

 locity of the wind with perfect accuracy. 



At the same meeting, the Rev. John Fleming, F. A. S.Ed., 

 minister of Bressay in Shetland, (who has for some time 

 past bttn engaged in examining the mineralogy of those 

 remote islands,) communicated an interesting account of the 

 geognoslie relations of the rocks in the islands of Unst and 

 Papa Stour. 



' After a general account of the position, extent and exter- 

 nal appearance of the island of Unst, he next described the 

 different rocks of which it is composed, in the order of their 

 relative antiquity, and remarked that their general position 

 is from S.W. to N. E. The rocks are gneiss, mica-slate, 

 clay-slate, limestone, hornblende-rock, potstone, and ser- 

 pentine. "\ he gneiss in some places appeared to alternate 

 with the oldest mica-slate, and in others to contain beds of 

 .hornblende-rock. The mica-slate, which is the most abun- 

 dant rock Ui the island, is traversed by numerous contem- 

 poraneous veins of quartz, and also of felspar, and passes 

 distinctly into clay-slate. It contains beds of hornblende- 

 rock and of limestone. The clay -slate occurs but sparing- 

 ly. The potstojie usually accompanies the serpentine. The 



serpentine 



