1 6 



Nov. 6. 



MajorWillfams' 

 experiments on 

 congelation. 



Nov. 20. 



Dr Hutton on 

 written lan- 

 guage. 



HISTORT of the SOCIETK 



Phyf. CI. Mr Robisqn read a Letter from Dr Charles 

 Hutton, ProfefTor of Mathematics in the Military Academy of 

 Woolwich, containing an Account of fome Experiments on the 

 Force of Congelation, made at Quebec in 1784 and 1785, by 

 Major Edward Williams of the Royal Artillery. This let- 

 ter and account are printed in this volume. [No. V. Phyf. CI.] 



Lit. CI. Dr Hutton read the remainder of his DifTerta- 

 tion on Written Language as a Sign of Speech. [See fupra, 

 June 19.] 



Nov. 27, 



General Meet- 

 ing. 



A general Meeting of the Society was held for the annual 

 election of the Office-bearers of the Society. [See Vol. I. Ap- 

 pendix to the Hiftory of the Society.] 



Phyf CI. Dr Francis Home read an Account of fome Ex- 



Dec. 4. 

 Dr Home on 



the comparative penments on the comparative Strength of different Tonics in 



ftrength of dif- l ° 



ferent tonics in Dyfpepfia. 



dyfpepfia. 



Letter relative 

 to the kraken. 



At the fame Meeting, a Letter was read from John Ramsay 

 L'amy, Efq; one of the Juftices of Peace for the county of 

 Forfar, and Mr John Guild, one of the Magiftrates of Dun- 

 dee, inclofing an affidavit made before them, of Jens Ander- 

 son, mailer, and Mads Jenson, mate of a Norwegian fhip, 

 relating to the appearance of a fuppofed kraken or fea-worm, 

 on Sunday, Auguft 5. 1786. about 15 leagues to the eaftward 

 of the coaft of Scotland, in north latitude 56.16. The appear- 

 ance was that of three low iflands or fand-banks of a grayifh 

 colour, within lefs than a mile's diftance from the fhip, and ex- 

 tending about three miles from the one extremity to the other. 

 It remained in fight about fifty minutes, and upon the fpring- 

 ing up of a breeze, gradually funk into the water. The ac- 

 count contains no further particulars worthy of notice, and is 

 perfectly confiflent with the idea of this being nothing more 



than 



