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HIS TORT of the SOCIETY. 



1790. 



Nov. 15." 



Dr Doig on the 

 ancient Helle- 

 nes. 



Dec. 6. 



Dr Hutton on 

 the theory of 



Mr Lochead's 

 account of a bi- 

 tuminous lake. 



Dec. 23. 

 Mr Frafer Tyt- 

 ler on tranfla- 

 tiont 



1791. 



Jan- 3- 



Method of cul- 

 tivating the ol- 

 denlandi* um- 

 hellata. 



Lit. CI. Mr Dalzel read the firft part of a DifTertation 

 concerning the ancient Hellenes, by David Doig, LL. D. Ma- 

 iler of the Grammar-fchool of Stirling. 



Phyf. CI. Dr Hutton read farther Obfervations on the 

 Theory of Rain. [See his DifTertations above referred to, Dif- 

 fertation III. Part I.] 



Dr Walker alfo communicated an Account of a Bituminous 

 Lake in the ifland of Trinidad, by Mr William Lochead, 

 Surgeon in Dominica. 



Lit. CI. Mr Fraser Tytler read the firft part of an EfTay 

 on the Principles of Tranilation. 



Phyf. CI. An Account of the method of cultivating the 

 Oldenlandia Umbellata, or Che Plant, tranflated from the Talinga 

 language by Dr Anderson of Madrafs, was communicated to 

 the Society. 



The firft thing to be attended to is the gathering of the 

 feeds. When the plants are well grown and red- coloured, and 

 after they have flowered and produced fruit and long roots, 

 then it is time to get the feed. As the feeds are very fmall, and 

 drop down under the plant, they can only be gathered with 

 the fand, which mull be kept in a heap till next year, as it can- 

 not be ufed that year. The ground on which the feed is to be 

 fown, mould be fandy, fupplied with fweet water, and well ma- 

 nured with (heeps dung. It is then to be plowed, the more 

 frequently the better, perhaps feven or eight times. It mull 

 be perfe&ly level and clean, and divided into beds of one yard 

 broad, and four yards long, with a narrow water-courfe between. 

 The feeds muft be fown thinly in thefe beds, and palmira 

 leaves fpread over the furface, and the water poured on them 

 to prevent the feeds from being warned out of the earth, until 

 they fhoot up, which will be in five or fix days. For two 



2 months 



