vi CONTENTS. 



I. Biographical Account of the Right Hon. Robert Dundas 



of Arnifton, Lord Prejident of the Court of SeJJion, Page 37. 



II. Biographical Account of Sir Alexander Dick of Prejlon- 



feld, Bart. M. D. - - 58. 



III. Biographical Account of the Right Hon. Sir Thomas Miller 



of Glen lee, Bart. Lord Prejident of the Court of Seffion, 63. 

 List ^Donations, continued from the firjl Volume, 77. 



PART II. 

 PAPERS READ BEFORE THE SOCIETT. 



I. 



Papers of the Physical Class. 



I. Of certain Natural Appearances of the Ground on the Hill 



of Arthur's Seat. By Dr James Hutton, - 3. 



II. An Account of the Method of making the Otter of Rofes, 



as it is prepared in the Eajl Indies. By Dr Donald 

 Monro, - - 12. 



III. Defer iption of a Mercurial Level. 5/ Mr Alexander Keith, 14. 



IV. Pathological Ohfervations on the Brain. By Mr Thomas 



Anderfon, - - 17. 



V. Experiments on the Expanfive Force of Freezing Water, 



made by Major Williams at Quebec, in the years 1784 

 and 1785. Communicated by Dr Charles Hutton, 23. 



VI. Abjlracl of Experiments made to determine the true Refift- 



ance of the Air to the Surfaces of Bodies, of various Fi- 

 gures, and moved through it with different degrees of 

 velocity. By Dr Charles Hutton, - 29. 



VII. Ob- 



