HIS TORT of the SOCIETY*. 



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Lit. Cl. Dr Anderson read a paper, entitled, Conjectures 

 on the original . Ufes of thofe circular Buildings called Dunes 

 in the northern part of Scotland. 



1 790. 



March 15. 

 Dr Anderfon 

 on dunes. 



Phyf CI. Dr Rutherford read a Defcription of an Improve- April 5. 



ment made in the construction of the Thermometer, by John improvement of 



Rutherford, M. D. [See No. XII. of this volume, Phyf. CL] ». thermomc - 



Lit. CI. Dr Anderson read an abftract of his paper on June2r. 



_. Dr Anderfon on 



DUtieS. dunes. 



A general Meeting was held for the election of Mem- 

 bers. [See the Appendix to the Hiftory of the Society.] 



Phyf. CL Mr Kerr read a Defcription of an Animal Ig- 

 notum in the Mufeum of the Univerfity of Edinburgh. 



June 28. 

 General Meet- 



J u, y 5- 



Mr Kerr on an 

 animal ignotum. 



Phyf. CI. Dr Hutton read Obfervations on the Theory of 

 Rain, being an addition to the papers on that fubjedt in the 

 firft volume of the Tranfactions of this Society, No. II. Phyf 

 CI. Thefe obfervations are fince publifhed by Dr Hutton in 

 a feparate work, viz. Differtations on different SubjeBs in Natural 

 Philofophy, Edin. 1792, and are contained in the third differta- 

 tion of the firft part. 



At this meeting, there was alfo read an Account of Prince 

 of Wales Ifland, given by Mr James Howison, one of the 

 furgeons of the new fettlement in that ifland, communicated 

 by Sir John Dalrymple. 



The following are fome of the moft remarkable particulars 

 contained in this account. 



This ifland, which is defcribed in the charts under the name 

 of Pulo Penany, is fituated in the entrance of the Straits of Ma- 

 lacca, in 100 degrees of eaft longitude and in 5 degrees of north 

 latitude. It is about feven leagues in length and three in 



breadth- 



Aug. 2. 

 Dr Hutton on 

 the theory of 

 rain. 



Mr Howifon's 

 account of 

 Prince of Wales 

 ifland. 



