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HISTORT of the S0CIE7T. 



1791. Some papers were alfo communicated at this meeting, from 



Mr Lindsay, Surgeon in Jamaica. 



Nov. 21. Lit. CI. There was read the firft part of an EfTay on the 



the theoiogy n of Theology of Plato, by the Reverend Dr Ogilvy of Midmar 

 in Aberdeenfhire. 



Nov, 28. 

 General Meet- 



Dec. 19. 



Dr Ogilvy on 

 the theology of 

 Plato. 



1792. 



Jan. 2. 

 Account of a 

 variety of tha 

 bramble. 



A general Meeting of the Royal Society was held for the 

 election of Office-bearers. \Vide Appendix to the Hiftory of 

 the Society in this volume.] 



Lit. CI. A fecond part of Dr Ogilvy's EfTay mentioned 

 above was read. 



Phyf. CI. An Account was read of a variety of the Bram- 

 ble found on the banks of Lochnefs in Invernefs-fhire, in a let- 

 ter to Sir James Hall from William Hall, Efq; of White- 

 hall. 



<( 



Whitehall, Jhire of Berwick, Dec. 1. 1791. 



* When I was in the Highlands in the year 1787, I found 

 on the banks of Lochnefs a plant which had fome refem- 

 blance to the common bramble, yet feemed to differ consider- 

 ably from it in its habit or manner of growth. As the in- 

 habitants faid it bore a fweeter berry than the bramble, I 

 procured fome roots of it, and fince that time have cultivated 

 them in my garden here. I have obferved it to poffefs the 

 following characters. 



" It is of the genus Rubus of LiNNiEUS, Though it ap- 

 pears to be akin both to the rafp {Rubus Idceus) and to the 

 bramble, {Rubus Fruticofus), it differs in fome refpects from 

 both. One or more erect ftalks, with a very few fhort 



" prickles^, 



